invidiousness
Example Sentences
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The episode was a giant green cauldron of invidiousness and ill will.
From Slate ● May 14, 2012
"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 Thomas Hardy
Of the numerous opinions expressed or unexpressed, ranging from polite incredulity to unholy joy or open contempt, the only quality which all these opinions held in common was their invidiousness.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
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
