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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : en-vee-uh-buhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛn vi ə bəl |
Definition of enviable
Origin :- c.1600, from envy + -able. Related: Enviably.
- adj desired, blessed
- What enviable privileges are annexed to the birth of an Englishman!
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Certainly, Arthur Beaufort is the most enviable fellow in Europe.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The fishermen who slept in the shelter of the Saint's Pool were enviable.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- The post of baggage master on a railroad train is not an enviable one.
- Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various
- But the Allies themselves were in no enviable position to relieve others.
- Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
- More than any of his books it is destined to an enviable popularity.
- Extract from : « A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties » by Charles Major
- I seem likely to perish in the estate that he accounts so enviable.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- The position of a Governor in the Colonies is not altogether an enviable one.
- Extract from : « Six Letters From the Colonies » by Robert Seaton
- It was another of Nostromo's triumphs, the greatest, the most enviable, the most sinister of all.
- Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
- My frame of mind as Power left me was by no means an enviable one.
- Extract from : « Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles Lever
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