invidiousness

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • May 14, 2012

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

“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

"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

Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas