The Clue
Shakespeare's "green sickness" (4 letter answer)
The Answer
ENVY
Tags
Notes
The answer ENVY is common and appears about once every 275 puzzles.
Related Clues
Begrudge
Covet
Deadly desire
One of a deadly seven
A deadly sin
Deadly sin
One of the deadly sins
It's a sin
Object of desire
Turn green?
Comparer's problem, maybe
Green-eyed emotion
"Green-eyed monster"
Green-eyed monster
Gruesome septet member
Jealousy's next of kin
Part of a famous septet
Resent another's ascent
One of seven deadly sins
"___ slayeth the silly one": Job
Emerald-eyed one's feeling
It "slayeth the silly one": Job
"A kind of praise": John Gay
Need to keep up with the Joneses
"Pity is for the living, ___ is for the dead": Twain
What Gay called "a kind of praise"
Definition
ENVY as a noun:
1. (envy, enviousness) = a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
2. (envy, invidia) = spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
ENVY as a verb:
1. feel envious towards; admire enviously
2. (envy, begrudge) = be envious of; set one's heart on