(a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings highlight limitations of the data supplied and suggest that the usefulness of this enviable and unique data source could be enhanced if the medical profession took greater care in clearly stating an International Classification of Diseases diagnosis in a patient's hospital record.
(2) It will, he believes, be impossible to find a candidate who is both qualified and willing to take on the best-paid, least-enviable job in Whitehall.
(3) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
(4) Former FA technical director Wilkinson has a long-standing interest in youth development and coaching, while Gradi remains director of football and director of the academy at Crewe Alexandra, where he has a long and enviable record of developing talent.
(5) Twelve days on, however, he claimed the team had moved on, has an enviable array of attacking options available and a camaraderie epitomised by Falcao’s and Perea’s decision to accompany the squad in Brazil.
(6) Löw has an enviable squad to choose players from, although he does not have a natural striker to call upon.
(7) During the past decade, Enders has built up an enviable reputation for outspoken and contrarian analysis of the prospects for technology, telecoms and media across Europe.
(8) It was the end of the last of a string of enviable careers.
(9) Menzel, who brings an anxious intensity to a featherweight part, has an enviable fan base among young female audiences.
(10) Lawson insisted her lifestyle was "normal" and that while the enviable kitchen on her TV show was not her own, those were definitely her real children darting in and out of the room, scoffing down ricotta cakes with grilled radicchio baked by their picture-perfect mother.
(11) Burning with energy, blessed with an enviably able new leader, the SNP feels like the party of most Labour activists’ secret dreams.
(12) Her face, under a drift of honeyed hair, has a bright, open glow to it; the smile that beams out of her campaign literature is enviably natural.
(13) Caribou – Our Love Canadian producer Dan Snaith has cut an enviably idiosyncratic path through dance music in recent years, both as Caribou and in his more dancefloor-friendly guise Daphni.
(14) He had enviably thick hair and, as he opened the door to let me in, I noticed an orange kitten positioned on the floor beside a Dalmatian puppy.
(15) Because womenswear can be fabulous, gorgeous, weird, ridiculous, breathtaking, game-changing, enviable, exciting, desirable, wonderful.
(16) If the talks succeed, Wilders will be in the enviable position of wielding power while abjuring responsibility.
(17) Eton College , where David Cameron and several others in his government were schooled, is not shy of broadcasting the enviably superb facilities it provides for its 1,300 boys, in return for £34,434 a year if parents are paying full fees.
(18) Why,” the anthropologist asked a wise woman of the tribe, “why are all your songs so short?” And the wise woman replied: “Our songs are all so short because we know so much.” In other words, the experience of living as a single people in a single place, where each new generation follows the same old paths – such an experience produced a wonderful, enviable confidence about the reliability and the knowability of the world.
(19) Knitting and sewing take place at its Los Angeles HQ, and it boasts an enviable benefits package for its workers (on the flipside, CEO Dov Charney has been dogged by accusations of alleged sexual harassment, which throws up its own ethical quandaries).
(20) Smith generated an enviable rapport with his audience through public appearances to promote the movies.
Envious
Definition:
(a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
(a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
(a.) Inspiring envy.
(a.) Excessively careful; cautious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 12.23pm BST 12.04pm BST As Mariano Rajoy and François Hollande prepare to reveal their austerity budgets (Spain goes on Thursday and France on Friday), they might be forgiven for casting an envious eye towards Australia where government statisticians revealed that the country is A$325bn (£200bn) better off than they'd thought.
(2) He was perhaps casting an envious glance at his counterpart Dave Whelan's summer signings, particularly Holt, who nodded over early on from six yards.
(3) "If you tell the truth and say, 'I care, but I'm envious,' then you're OK.
(4) The top eight adjectives they chose were: envious, stiff, industrious, nature loving, quiet, honest, dishonest, xenophobic.
(5) Others feel an affinity to Scotland as they gaze enviously over the border wishing they had free prescriptions, lower university fees and a better system of financing care homes.
(6) The functions of these 'successful defence' manoeuvres are to obviate any feelings of an awareness of envy, although they may be overtly envious attacks within themselves, secondly they nullify any awareness of dependence, and also nullify awareness of need and illness, and thirdly they maintain the narcissistic organization by producing a successful identificate.
(7) I pull out a grape-flavoured one in bright mauve and eye Clapper’s Advanced Vaping System enviously.
(8) Except when we’re dismissed or denounced as envious and petty; as derivatives and dependents by nature.
(9) Besides the huge number of apps designed for the iPad – on which those running the Android team gaze enviously, if their efforts to create a similar "designed for tablet" section in Google Play are any guide – Apple is also making its play with those free apps for people who buy a new device.
(10) In 1977 the eminent Australian international relations theorist Hedley Bull summarised Australia’s core anxiety as that of a tiny population commanding a continent the size of Europe, rich in food, energy, and raw materials, and with a gross national product that easily surpasses that of its far more populous south-east Asian neighbours, a situation which it believed must surely be brought to an end at some point by an envious Asian “other”.
(11) The more I interviewed them about why they went into the profession, the more envious I became.
(12) But by the end of a pretty short conversation they're usually telling me how envious of me they are and how they wish they could spend more time with their kids.
(13) Guus Hiddink admitted he was left “envious” of the options available to the Paris Saint-Germain manager, Laurent Blanc, as Chelsea suffered the first defeat of his second spell in interim charge to trail 2-1 in their Champions League knockout tie .
(14) I think Malcolm would be incredibly envious that his alter ego, me, had got this gig and didn't have to spend his time dealing with idiot MPs in parliament."
(15) On stage, Lee is apparently an embittered, envious, self-lacerating man, caught in a ferocious double-bind: if he’s unsuccessful it’s because his audience are stupid shits who don’t get his jokes; and if he’s successful it’s because he’s a stupid shit churning out jokes that confirm his audience in their prejudices.
(16) Since this movie has no dimension at all, everyone is envious of the monkey.” It remains to be seen whether negative reviews for Fantastic Four damage the film’s box office this weekend.
(17) It is easy to see why players bounce off Klopp and indeed it was tempting to wonder if Chelsea’s despondent players were casting the occasional envious glance at the German, whose energetic and engrossing touchline demeanour offered a welcome shade of light next to José Mourinho ’s dark scowl.
(18) There is nothing shameful in admitting that I’m envious of native English speakers, or of people who are more charming than I am, or that I have negative thoughts about the fact that I feel I’m not enough – that is something that is part of me and it is good to put it out in the world,” she says.
(19) That’s the only way to make film.” That is why he is envious of musicians, he says.
(20) The author suggests that adolescent anger arises from an underlying wish to coerce objects into providing all-giving restitution for losses and narcissistic injuries, not necessarily from a wish to sadistically or enviously destroy them.