Adjective

(en adjective)

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

an envious''' man, disposition, or attack; '''envious tongues

* Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 19.

Neither be thou envious at the wicked.

* Keble

My soul is envious of mine eye.

Excessively careful; cautious.

* Jeremy Taylor

No men are so envious of their health.

(obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

* Shakespeare

Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.

(obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.

* Spenser

He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victor's glory from him snatched away.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.

* (William Shakespeare)

The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.

Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.

* Addison

There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.

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Exorbitant.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

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Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

(Bancroft)