invidiousness

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • May 14, 2012

We have mentioned these names, not for the sake of invidiousness, but have chosen them at random.

From Cathedral Cities of England by Gilbert, George

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

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

“And for why?” demanded several Irishmen, truculently, their ire aroused at the invidiousness of the allusion.

From A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route by Russel, Florence Kimball