envy

We must look like the type of couple that would inspire envy, not one in the process of saying goodbye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

A fifth-generation farmer in an area with agricultural soil that is the envy of the world, Yerxa is facing a hurdle during this fall’s harvest that he didn’t see coming.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

His home being Hollywood—specifically a somewhat dank apartment, rendered in depressing detail by set designer François-Pierre Couture—Mr. Guimarães encounters qualities that are endemic to the place: for instance career envy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

That success has Mr. Jentleson green with envy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

She stood outside the mullioned window, stroked the gryphon’s sleek feathered head, and suffered a pang of absurd envy.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Maybe it’s not just that he envies their absolute power on the home front or their unabashedly lavish palaces.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026

It’s also necessary to limit distortions to private-sector behavior, since private capital and competitive incentives drive the kind of innovation and financial firepower the rest of the world envies.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Sam, now 25, says he envies those who do want to become parents because the experience "clearly has" beauty and love in it.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

If your social-worker friend envies your designer clothes, you don’t have to ditch your Prada for rags, but it’s probably better not to festoon your outfit with your biggest diamond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

“Colonel Cargill envies you because of the splendid job you’re doing on parades. He’s afraid I’m going to put you in charge of bomb patterns.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The 67-year-old breast cancer survivor, who consults on sustainable textiles and runs a small farmers market, would never have her own property sprayed with pesticides, but admits to having envied neighbors who did.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Perhaps the market shoppers I envied had simply made a few decisions before everything started charming them.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Men's doubles is one area where British tennis is undoubtedly envied.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Hurley has long envied NFL coaches like Kyle Shanahan, who script every single action of their offenses with absurdly long play sheets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

In the ghetto, as in suburbia, it’s the same status struggle to stand out in some envied way from the rest.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

It’s during the voice-over when Henry recalls as a boy envying the wiseguys who hung out at the pizza parlor and taxi stand across the street from his home.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2022

You are rebounding, on your own two feet, when you find yourself envying other writers again, just a bit.

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2021

Instead of envying parts of the country that will be legally allowed to mix on Christmas Day, she thought London’s Covid restrictions had been comparatively looser for the most part of the year.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2020

“You shouldn’t be envying those other people,” Siegel says of my depression over lacking a social bubble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2020

As the baby grew older, she cast an envying look at pink.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez