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

Thus Pedro lost all his property because of his invidiousness.

From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill

The invidiousness of knowing and not acting on Oates's 'dangerous secret,' Godfrey hoped, fell on the Minister rather than on himself.

From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Lang, Andrew

“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 Russel, Florence Kimball