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

We had with us neither spades nor pickaxes, and if love of ease surmounted our desire of knowledge, the offence has not the invidiousness of singularity.

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

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 Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)

"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