enviousness

Example Sentences

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It is they who seem to have the enviousness, to be torn with desire to get what isn't theirs.

From Christine by Cholmondeley, Alice

And was it not something like enviousness which gripped his heart, as if of a privilege denied to him alone of all the men that had ever passed through this world?

From Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph

To business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman

They tell us, also, that Catulus himself alleged this in vindication of his honor, accusing, in various ways, the enviousness of Marius.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

For that reason, perhaps, being free from that enviousness that characterizes so many girls, she was a beauty-lover.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.