enviousness
Example Sentences
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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 Arthur Hugh Clough
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 Gustavus Hindman Miller
I fancy a great deal of nonsense is talked about the world's enviousness.
From The Odd Women by George Gissing
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 Rena I. Halsey
And it is amusing, though sad, to gee how such folk take for granted in others the same pretty enviousness which they feel in themselves.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
