Translations for „envy“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

I . envy [ˈenvi] N no pl

envy

zazdrość f

to be the envy of sb

wzbudzać czyjąś zazdrość

Phrases:

to be green with envy

zielenieć [perf z-] z zazdrości

II . envy <-ie-> [ˈenvi] VB trans

to envy sb sth [or sb for sth]

zazdrościć komuś czegoś

envy VB

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envy

zazdrość

Usage examples with envy

green with envy

zielony z zazdrości

to be green with envy

zielenieć [perf z-] z zazdrości

to be the envy of sb

wzbudzać czyjąś zazdrość

to envy sb sth [or sb for sth]

zazdrościć komuś czegoś

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

I listened to his travel books and my eyes burned with envy.

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Both of the eldest are bad and ugly, and envy the younger child sister due to her beauty.

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Greed and envy blinds many people, and they forget their good traditions and life as good neighbors.

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Soon they understood that their riches would become the envy of others, and took the only possible decision.

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The characters of the book all have a problem to overcome, such as jealousy, envy, or greed.

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The far enemies of joy are jealousy and envy, two mind-states in obvious opposition.

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The images of snow, clouds and light-situations gave him the envy to study structure, space, movement and time.

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Not content with names and dates, the designer has added certain touches of high art which will make other nations split with envy.

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However, he was well aware of the latent suspicion for foreigners mixed with envy, with which his success was viewed by some.

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They are here because of actions based on egoic jealousy, envy, insincerity, struggle, combat or rationalization of the world.

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