enviousness
Example Sentences
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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 Conrad, Joseph
To business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman
It is they who seem to have the enviousness, to be torn with desire to get what isn't theirs.
From Christine by Cholmondeley, Alice
Turning I left the rose unto her pride, The lily to her enviousness, And soon upon the grassy ground espied A daisy all companionless.
From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William
And it is amusing, though sad, to gee how such folk take for granted in others the same pretty enviousness which they feel in themselves.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
