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envious
«As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.»
Author: Antisthenes
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Passion
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consumed, eaten, eating away, eat away, envious, rust
«Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.»
«I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.»
«RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy. To denizens of the midworld the word means good and wise.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accounting, adj, advocacy, brotherhood, Brotherhood Of Man, candid, denizen, denizens, envious, incompetent, indolent, logical, luckless, prevails, The Brotherhood, the underworld, The View, underworld
«And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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brute, envious, exalted, loudest, lowest, shouts, station, The Wheel of Fortune, wheel, zeal
«An envious feverOf pale and bloodless emulation.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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bloodless, emulation, envious, fever, pale