invidiousness

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • May 14, 2012

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

Besides, the disabilities imposed upon all are necessarily without that bitter and stinging element of invidiousness which attaches to disfranchisement in a republic.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

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

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

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas