enviousness
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Hooker was apparently examining the elegant furniture and luxurious accommodation with his usual resentful enviousness.
From Clarence by Bret Harte
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 William Watson
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
"Do not give way to the enviousness of your sister's lot," he admonished her, very grave, in his deep voice.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
