(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.
(n.) Emulation; rivalry.
(n.) Public odium; ill repute.
(n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
(v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
(v. t.) To hate.
(v. t.) To emulate.
(v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
(v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(2) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
(3) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(4) It is difficult for me to resist a slight sense of envy for those anxiously awaiting A-level results this morning, although this may seem perverse.
(5) And this naturally provokes envy and jealousy.” Asked when they fell out, Blatter said: “It was after he was elected Uefa president in 2007.
(6) A later phase of penis envy usually represents a regressive effort to resolve oedipal conflicts.
(7) Self-envy interpretation may help the analyst to deal with the transferential pressure exercised by these patients, and as a consequence improving the 'working space' and providing a better analytical objectivity.
(8) I am looking forward to working closely with him to ensure the BBC's television portfolio remains the envy of the broadcasting world."
(9) Owing to its confusional characteristics, envy is always subtly disguised and hardly ever appears in a straightforward manner.
(10) This confused, less than beautiful, apparently dysfunctional city – the physical result of so much trauma and division – becomes charming, full of life and the envy of other cities, not for its beauty or its wealth but because of its vitality.
(11) Using skills acquired in his first job with the accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and his second, buying and selling companies for JP Morgan, he minted a commercial model from the calm opulence of United's discreet Mayfair office that soon became the envy of the football world.
(12) • Try to ignore the noise around you: the chatter, the parties, the reviews, the envy, the shame.
(13) Franklin puts the more personal criticism made of writers down to envy, blaming bloggers, and thinks British literary culture is uniquely mean.
(14) Envy or jealousy always destroys unity, even inside one household.
(15) Botín's father, Emilio, executive chairman of the Santander group, was behind the takeover of Abbey National in 2004 and pounced on Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley during the 2008 banking crisis, in deals much envied by rivals.
(16) 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.
(17) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
(18) Traditional drive-defense or object instinctual explanations tend to diminish awareness of the importance of self-esteem in the experience of envy.
(19) I envy those who have not yet read The Iliad, if such there are.
(20) To be sure, envy reactions to any patient are significant, whether they simply distort the therapist's perception or contribute to a deeper understanding of the patient.
Hater
Definition:
(n.) One who hates.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fairness, “Still can’t pay no attention to a hater”, as the man himself might say... all year.
(2) Here, in the profane world of anti-music, I could be a hater and say: "This is where the rock'n'roll dream dies.
(3) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
(4) Even the most fervent haters of the BBC can only mutter and mumble when Attenborough productions are mentioned.
(5) Joe Biden is the alternative Clinton haters have been waiting for | Jeb Lund Read more “If you can’t state why you want the job, then there’s a lot more lucrative opportunities other places,” he said.
(6) Luke Sookdeo, a pupil at Perry Beeches Academy, Birmingham, had a word for his "haters" after getting an A in English literature and an A* in drama.
(7) The haters cannot get past the relentless self-promotion, and loathe everything BrewDog stands for.
(8) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
(9) Supermarket-haters, such as George Monbiot, argue that Tesco is an evil capitalist enterprise that decent folk should avoid at all costs.
(10) They say Trump’s a racist and a hater,” Ron said.
(11) More Attlee there then than Bevan or Castle, both good haters who were loved - and hated - in return.
(12) We are not just haters or lovers of particular weather conditions but perverse creatures, wishing it would be sunny when it rains and rainy when it's sunny.
(13) Though many on social media have pointed to the site as being behind Overweight Haters Ltd, it is unclear whether the Slimgur posts are from the cards’ organiser.
(14) Saddest of all are the chain-link fences that now ring the plaza, giving the Brutalism haters even more ammunition to tear the thing down.
(15) Today, when he delivers his exhaustively trailed autumn statement on the economy , and tomorrow, when possibly the biggest strike since the 20s is expected in response to his public-spending cuts, there should be plenty of opportunities for the Osborne-haters.
(16) Nick Griffin knows this much: it doesn't matter how badly the haters try to expose him – his followers feel under siege enough to ignore all that as part of some massive leftwing conspiracy.
(17) Nothing came of it but it caused us grave concern.” Salazar concluded with a message for his detractors: “Let the haters hate; we’re going to keep winning through hard work, dedication and fair play.” But the immediate response from Usada and Magness suggests this saga will rumble on for a long while yet.
(18) Listen to those people talk, they're haters," he said.
(19) Tony Abbott is abusing his office and the cabinet process by pursuing his own anti-wind ideology, enlisting fellow wind haters Joe Hockey to help bring down a whole industry.” Last month Abbott described turbines as “visually awful” , and Hockey had earlier labelled them “utterly offensive” .
(20) Beyoncé’s use of “slay” is an additional embrace of the language of the black queer community and, in its repetition, it’s an incantation that can slay haters, slay patriarchy, to slay white supremacy.