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| covet |
to envy or wish to possess (something belonging to another) inordinately or without right. [1/3 definitions] |
| deadly sins |
the seven sins believed to cause spiritual death: pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. |
| envious |
showing or feeling envy. |
| envy |
to regard with envy. [1/4 definitions] |
| green-eyed |
(informal) afflicted with envy; jealous. |
| Perdix |
in Greek mythology, the Athenian who invented the saw and who was turned into a partridge by Athena after Daedalus, in a fit of envy, threw him from a roof. [1/2 definitions] |
| venom |
an emotion such as envy or hatred, esp. when verbally expressed. [1/2 definitions] |
| venomous |
characterized by or showing envy, hatred, or the like; spiteful; malicious. [1/2 definitions] |
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