envied
English
Alternative forms
- envyed (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛnvid/
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Adjective
envied (comparative more envied, superlative most envied)
- That is the object of envy.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:
- She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪd/
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