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Example sentences for: envious

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Matisse, envious of Picasso's success, tried to ignore him until the 1930s when he needed Picasso's influence to bring himself out of an artistic funk.
"Hitchcock would have been intrigued, and maybe envious," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.
Marc Scorca, the president of Opera America, says that the more he learns about the European system, the less envious of it he is.
Your cyber-tormentor could be a nutcase former client, an envious former colleague, an aggrieved ex-spouse or ex-lover.
He was apparently so envious of Washington that he spent a large part of his address spelling out his own excellent qualifications for the job.)