invidiousness

Example Sentences

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The episode was a giant green cauldron of invidiousness and ill will.

From Slate • May 14, 2012

Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

I thank God I am free from all national invidiousness.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

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

But they seemed well used to the enforcement of the distinction, and to find therein nothing of invidiousness.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various