Definition of "enviable"

He [Douglas William Jerrold] had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time.

1863, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Douglas Jerrold”, in My Miscellanies. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], page 83

This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation.

c. 1870, Emile Gaboriau, translated by Laura E. Kendall, Monsieur Lecoq