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enviousness
noun as in envy
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Example Sentences
For that reason, perhaps, being free from that enviousness that characterizes so many girls, she was a beauty-lover.
We have daily before our eyes the extreme wickedness of men, their horrid pride, savage hatred, barbarous enviousness, and other impious qualities, with which they tear one another, after the manner of wild beasts.
The cottager whose pearl Colin had come down to inspect, slapped the farmer on the back, and without a trace of enviousness—for he himself had been lucky—joined in his delight.
Turning I left the rose unto her pride, The lily to her enviousness, And soon upon the grassy ground espied A daisy all companionless.
It is they who seem to have the enviousness, to be torn with desire to get what isn't theirs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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