enviousness
Example Sentences
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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
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 Joseph Conrad
It is they who seem to have the enviousness, to be torn with desire to get what isn't theirs.
From Christine by Alice Cholmondeley
Mr. Hooker was apparently examining the elegant furniture and luxurious accommodation with his usual resentful enviousness.
From Clarence by Bret Harte
“Marse Dave Henry is sholy a lieutender in de company, an’ mistiss she say he’d a done been a giner’l ef dey wa’nt so much enviousness in de army.”
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
