Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: enviously
IPA transcription: ['ɛnviəsli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: enviously, covetously, jealously
    Meaning: with jealousy; in an envious manner; "he looked at his friend's new car jealously"
Usage examples
  • John Lexman looked at him enviously.
  • "He must have been a good tailor," said the Scarecrow, somewhat enviously.
  • Bess wrote back, enviously, that never did anything interesting, by any possibility, happen, now that Nan was away from Tillbury.
  • Next morning Dr. Lambert rather enviously congratulated the boy on the fact that stones and roots evidently did not interfere with the soundness of his sleep; to which the boy responded, "Well, Doctor, you see it isn't very long since I used to take fourteen china animals to bed with me every night!"