Clues for the word "ENVY"
We've had 155 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 453 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on January 06, 2026.
Definition of envy
- n. - Malice; ill will; spite.
- n. - Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.
- n. - Emulation; rivalry.
- n. - Public odium; ill repute.
- n. - An object of envious notice or feeling.
- v. t. - To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
- v. t. - To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
- v. t. - To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
- v. t. - To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
- v. t. - To hate.
- v. t. - To emulate.
- v. i. - To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
- v. i. - To show malice or ill will; to rail.
Referring Clues
- One of 7-Down
- It's a sin
- Deadly desire
- "___ slayeth the silly one": Job
- A deadly sin
- Comparer's problem, maybe
- Need to keep up with the Joneses
- It "slayeth the silly one": Job
- "A kind of praise": John Gay
- "___, like lightning, seeks the highest places": Livy
- "Men always hate most what they ___ most": Mencken
- Green-eyed monster
- Part of a famous septet
- One of the seven deadly sins
- One of the deadly sins
- Begrudge
- Green feeling?
- Sin for the green-eyed
- Covetousness
- Covetous feeling
- Emotion felt by Cain
- "Green-eyed" emotion
- Jealousy
- Sin of the green-eyed
- "Green-eyed" feeling
- That "green" feeling
- Be resentful of
- "As rust corrupts iron, so ___ corrupts man": Antisthenes
- Green person's sin
- "Pity is for the living, ___ is for the dead": Mark Twain
- "The ulcer of the soul," according to Socrates
- Be covetous of
- Tenth Commandment sin
- Deadly sin
- List partner of avarice and gluttony
- Be jealous of
- "Green" feeling
- Green feeling
- That green feeling
- Object of desire?
- Some are green with it
- Green feeling that's not good
- Green with ___
- Wishful thinking?
- Covet
- Jealous feeling
- Sin in the film "Se7en"
- Green state?
- "Green" feeling
- Jealousy without resentment
- Begrudging feeling
- Covetousness cousin
- Another deadly sin
- Green feeling that's a cardinal sin
- Relative of jealousy
- Jealousy's kin
- Coveter's emotion
- Feeling of covetousness
- Feeling of covetousness
- Emotion akin to jealousy
- The-grass-is-greener feeling
- "Pain at the good fortune of others": Aristotle
- "King of Rock and Roll"
- Green emotion?
- "Pity is for the living, ___ is for the dead": Twain
- Be begrudging
- Sin for one who's gone green?
- Grudging praise
- "Green-eyed monster"
- "Green" emotion
- Green condition?
- Gucci fragrance
- "Snow White" character flaw
- Greed's cousin
- One of a deadly seven
- 'Green-eyed monster'
- Go green?
- "Men always hate most what they ___ most": H. L. Mencken
- Reason to turn green?
- Green attitude?
- Begrudger's feeling
- Word homophonically hidden in the eight longest puzzle answers
- "Pain at another's good," per Plutarch
- Sin associated with the color green
- Feeling of jealousy
- Jealously
- "Green" sin
- Might feel it when labelmates get rich
- One of seven deadly sins
- Resentful feeling
- Spiteful resentment
- Resentment at another's success
- Jealous emotion
- Sin for which diplomat has nothing to lose
- Desire of another's property etc
- Jealous emotion - deadly sin
- Grudge disheartened Eastern visionary
- Desire to possess another's attributes etc
- Turn green?
- Desire as a rival
- Jealousy of men vying for success
- Resentment
- Cover wanting to abscond - why it's said to be a sin
- Measure against unknown sin
- Grudging admiration of diplomat with nothing to lose
- Wish for thing or quality belonging to another
- Grudging admiration of diplomat who lacks nothing
- Sin of a loveless diplomat
- Reason to go green?
- "The ulcer of the soul," to Socrates
- One of a sinful septet
- 50% of moral indignation, per Vittorio De Sica
- Member of a "deadly" septet
- Sin of ambassador with nothing to lose?
- Feel jealous of minister who lacks nothing
- The green-eyed monster
- Bill and Ben vying to contain resentment
- Begrudge, covet
- New version reported in 16
- Wish one could be like diplomat missing nothing
- Green state?
- Bitter sin
- Go green?
- Reason to go green?
- Green sin?
- Grudging feeling
- One of a well-known septet
- Be begrudging of
- Begrudger's emotion
- Sin for Iago
- What the Joneses may elicit
- Emotion linked to schadenfreude
- Deadly sin that's a hint to the starred answers' "initials"
- Covetous emotion
- You might be green with it
- Sin often associated with green
- Green-eyed monster's emotion
- Sin that sounds like two letters
- "That most odious and antisocial of all passions": John Stuart Mill
- Desire for what someone else has
- "Our ___ always lasts longer than the happiness of those we ___": Heraclitus
- Coveted object
- Emotion that sounds like two letters
- Major theme of "Othello"
- Member of a noted septet
- "It should have happened to me instead" feeling
- "I want what they have" feeling
- Sin represented by John Doe in the movie "Se7en"
- Desire
- Emotion new to "Inside Out 2"
- Emotion that sounds like its middle two letters
- Root of resentment, at times
- Schadenfreude source
- Coveter's sin
- Subject of the Tenth Commandment
Last Seen In
- Daily American - January 06, 2026
- New York Times - December 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 24, 2025
- LA Times - October 30, 2025
- LA Times - October 27, 2025
- New York Times - October 26, 2025
- Daily American - September 19, 2025
- New York Times - July 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 23, 2025
- Daily American - May 06, 2025
- Daily American - February 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 20, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 03, 2025
- Daily American - January 31, 2025
- Daily American - January 13, 2025
- Daily American - January 09, 2025
- New York Times - January 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 20, 2024
- Daily American - December 19, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 15, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 01, 2024
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