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envious

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I’m envious, but I want it to do well.

"By the time they graduate, I think I will feel a bit envious, too, that they're getting these lovely certificates for all the hard work they've done - while I will have been working hard but won't get a big celebratory day," she says.

From BBC

And I remember looking up at TV screens and was very envious that they were taking the technology to new heights.

From Slate

It’s an immediately familiar side of Agatha because we’ve watched her oscillate, even begrudgingly, between these two poles of her existence on the Witches Road as she became more protective over and envious of Billy and his growing power.

From Salon

I can only be envious of the early fish and archaic crabs that might have seen Earth’s temporary band of spinning debris.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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