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Crossword-Solution: ENVY 4 letters, 295 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Envy n. Malice; ill will; spite.
Envy n. Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the
sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some
degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious
grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of
Caesar.
Envy n. Emulation; rivalry.
Envy n. Public odium; ill repute.
Envy n. An object of envious notice or feeling.
Envy v. t. To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a
feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising
from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to
possess it.
Envy v. t. To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or
repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of
another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon;
to begrudge.
Envy v. t. To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
Envy v. t. To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
Envy v. t. To hate.
Envy v. t. To emulate.
Envy v. i. To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything
with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
Envy v. i. To show malice or ill will; to rail.

We have 295 clues for the answer “ENVY”

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"A kind of praise": John Gay 1 answer
"As rust corrupts iron, so ___ corrupts man": Antisthenes 1 answer
"For wrath killeth the foolish man, and ___ slayeth the silly one": Job 5:2 1 answer
"Green" emotion 1 answer
"Green" feeling 1 answer
"Green" sin 1 answer
"Green-eyed" emotion 1 answer
"Green-eyed" feeling 1 answer
"I want what they have" feeling 1 answer
"I want what you've got" feeling 1 answer
"I wish I had that!" feeling 1 answer
"It should have happened to me instead" feeling 1 answer
"Men always hate most what they ___ most": H. L. Mencken 1 answer
"Men always hate most what they ___ most": Mencken 1 answer
"Our ___ always lasts longer than the happiness of those we ___": Heraclitus 1 answer
"Pain at another's good," per Plutarch 1 answer
"Pity is for the living, ___ is for the dead": Mark Twain 1 answer
"Pity is for the living, ___ is for the dead": Twain 1 answer
"Religion of the mediocre," per Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1 answer
"Snow White" character flaw 1 answer
"That most odious and antisocial of all passions": John Stuart Mill 1 answer
"The adversary of the fortunate" 1 answer
"The tax which all distinction must pay": Emerson 1 answer
"The ulcer of the soul," according to Socrates 1 answer
"The ulcer of the soul," to Socrates 1 answer
"To feel ___ is human, to savour Schadenfreude is devilish": Schopenhauer 1 answer
"___ slayeth the silly one": Job 1 answer
"___, like lightning, seeks the highest places": Livy 1 answer
50% of moral indignation, per Vittorio De Sica 1 answer
A sin. 1 answer
Another deadly sin 1 answer
Be begrudging 1 answer
Be begrudging of 1 answer
Be covetous 1 answer
Be covetous of 1 answer
Be green-eyed. 1 answer
Begrudge, maybe 1 answer
Begrudger's emotion 1 answer
Begrudger's feeling 1 answer
Begrudging feeling 1 answer
Bitter sin 1 answer
Companion of pride, lust, etc. 1 answer
Comparer's problem, maybe 1 answer
Coventousness is one, name another 1 answer
Coveted object 1 answer
Coveter's emotion 1 answer
Coveter's sin 1 answer
Covetous emotion 1 answer
Covetousness cousin 1 answer
Deadly desire 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENVY (5)

The happier state In Heav’n, which follows dignity, might draw Envy from each inferior; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Formost to stand against the Thunderers aime Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain? where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From Faction; for none sure will claim in hell Precedence, none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Emil felt a new thrill of admiration for his friend, and with it the old pang of envy at the way in which Amédée could do with his might what his hand found to do, and feel that, whatever it was, it was the most important thing in the world.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Troy had felt, in his transient way, hundreds of times, that he could not envy other people their condition, because the possession of that condition would have necessitated a different personality, when he desired no other than his own.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
Her grace was only an uneasy wriggle, her audacity was the result of insolence and envy, and her wit was restless spite.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with ENVY (3)

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Anonymous Holy Bible: New International Version
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set …
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy... my friend; you're already there!!
Sandra Chami Kassis
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 334 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).