enviousness
Example Sentences
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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
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 Gustavus Hindman Miller
Mr. Hooker was apparently examining the elegant furniture and luxurious accommodation with his usual resentful enviousness.
From Clarence by Bret Harte
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
I fancy a great deal of nonsense is talked about the world's enviousness.
From The Odd Women by George Gissing
