enviousness
Example Sentences
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"It's nothing but enviousness," he said in a lowered tone, which had a stimulating effect upon my wearied hearing.
From Falk A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad
And was it not something like enviousness which gripped his heart, as if of a privilege denied to him alone of all the men that had ever passed through this world?
From Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
It is they who seem to have the enviousness, to be torn with desire to get what isn't theirs.
From Christine by Alice Cholmondeley
I fancy a great deal of nonsense is talked about the world's enviousness.
From The Odd Women by George Gissing
For that reason, perhaps, being free from that enviousness that characterizes so many girls, she was a beauty-lover.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Rena I. Halsey
