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enviable adj : causing envy; "an enviable position"

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  1. Arousing or likely to arouse envy.
    He had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time. — My Miscellanies by Wilkie Collins
    This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation. — Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau

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