invidiousness
Example Sentences
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The episode was a giant green cauldron of invidiousness and ill will.
From Slate ● May 14, 2012
Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Besides, the disabilities imposed upon all are necessarily without that bitter and stinging element of invidiousness which attaches to disfranchisement in a republic.
From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various
"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
He rejoiced in the present meeting, however, as the best of all possible answers to such a piece of invidiousness.
From Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by William Landsborough
