invidiousness

Example Sentences

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The episode was a giant green cauldron of invidiousness and ill will.

From Slate • May 14, 2012

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

All who come to hear the doctrine, the preacher must receive with benevolence, and his sermon must be without invidiousness.

From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Carus, Paul

We have mentioned these names, not for the sake of invidiousness, but have chosen them at random.

From Cathedral Cities of England by Gilbert, George

But they seemed well used to the enforcement of the distinction, and to find therein nothing of invidiousness.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various