Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of envy towards his mother. [+ towards]
I don't envy the young ones who've become TV superstars and know no other world. [VERB noun]
Elizabeth Best suffers super yacht envy in Antibes.
The narcissist burns with envy and will do anything to take from others what he desires.
Britain is now the envy of the world's record companies.
He has [ …] envied against the people.
Sometimes I envy the people who don't have televisions.
To envy another is to feel ill will, jealousy, or discontent at the person's possession of something that one keenly desires to have or achieve oneself; , begrudge implies an unwillingness that someone should possess or enjoy something that is needed or deserved; to , covet is to long ardently and wrongfully for something that belongs to another
