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adjective 
  1. envious, Envious; causing or arising from envy.
  2. enviable, Enviable; desirable.
  3. Prompted by or expressing or adapted to excite envious dislike or ill will; offensively or unfairly discriminate, discriminating.
The professor made distinctions based only on his own whim.
  1. hateful, Hateful; odious; detestable.
Etymology: From invidiosusLatin, invidiÅsus < invidiaLatin, invidia "envy, ill will"< in-Latin, in- "upon" + videoLatin, videÅ "I see".


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