invidiousness
Example Sentences
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The episode was a giant green cauldron of invidiousness and ill will.
From Slate ● May 14, 2012
Thus Pedro lost all his property because of his invidiousness.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
“And for why?” demanded several Irishmen, truculently, their ire aroused at the invidiousness of the allusion.
From A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route by Florence Kimball Russel
We had with us neither spades nor pickaxes, and if love of ease surmounted our desire of knowledge, the offence has not the invidiousness of singularity.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
"I do not," I said, "like the word 'real' There's a disagreeable invidiousness about it, and your mouth, you being what you are, should be the last to use it."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 by Various
