Crossword-Solution: ENVIES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Envies | pl. | of Envy |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ENVIES | anagram | NEIVES |
We have 24 clues for the answer “ENVIES”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Is covetous of | 1 answer |
| Wishes one were (6) | 1 answer |
| Wishes one had | 1 answer |
| Wants what they're having, say | 1 answer |
| Wants to trade places with | 1 answer |
| Views with jealousy | 1 answer |
| Turns green, in a way | 1 answer |
| Shows covetousness | 1 answer |
| Is jealous of | 1 answer |
| Is green? | 1 answer |
| Is green-eyed, in a way | 1 answer |
| Has green eyes, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Feels jealous of | 1 answer |
| Exhibits one of the seven deadly sins | 1 answer |
| Desires to possess. | 1 answer |
| Commits a deadly sin | 2 answers |
| Begrudges | 2 answers |
| Turns green? | 2 answers |
| Goes green? | 2 answers |
| Resents | 4 answers |
| Covets | 4 answers |
| Covetous feeling | 10 answers |
| DEADLY sin | 13 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENVIES (5)
For us alone Was death invented? or to us deni’d This intellectual food, for beasts reserv’d? For Beasts it seems: yet that one Beast which first Hath tasted, envies not, but brings with joy The good befall’n him, Author unsuspect, Friendly to man, farr from deceit or guile.
The lords forgot their spites and the ladies their envies, the princes and ministers made friends among themselves, and the judges showed no favor.
Richard de Bury was the king, if not the father, of bibliomaniacs; his immortal work reveals to us that long before the invention of printing men were tormented and enraptured by those very same desires, envies, jealousies, greeds, enthusiasms, and passions which possess and control bibliomaniacs at the present time.
Among the large numbers of women and girls thus assembled--many of them forced into monastic seclusion against their will, for the reason that their families could give them no dower--subjected to the unsatisfied longings, suspicions, bickerings, petty jealousies, envies, and hatreds, so inevitable in convent life--mental disease was not unlikely to be developed at any moment.
Nevertheless, the Gitáno, though he naturally prefers his own interest to that of his brother, and envies him his gain when he does not expect to share in it, is at all times ready to side with him against the Busno, because the latter is not a Gitáno, but of a different blood, and for no other reason.
Quotes with ENVIES (3)
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. Love keeps no score of wrongs; does not gloat over other men's sins, but delights in the truth. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance. [....] In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.
Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a deliberate foul delight in spoiling it?
This essay is intended to serve as a reminder that immense and threatening divisions in mankind can spring from differences between virtues as well as from envies and greeds. When the virtues on each part are largely inapprehensible by the other, the danger is heightened by Man's natural fear of what he does not understand, and his inclination to suppose it not worth understanding. To attack it easier than to study. There are also, in this case of China and the West, intense …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 37 times in crossword archives (1947–2022).