envious

adjective4

1. •
   Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.

   • an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues
2. •
   Excessively careful; cautious.

   • for no man was ever so amorous, as to love a toad; none so envious, as to repine at the condition of the miserable — 1651
3. •
   (no longer used) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

   • Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. — 1593
4. •
   (literary, no longer used) Inspiring envy.

   • He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victors glory from him snatcht away. — 1590