invidiousness

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

From Slate • May 14, 2012

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

"I do not," I said, "like the word 'real' There's a disagreeable invidiousness about it, and your mouth, you being what you are, should be the last to use it."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 by Various

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

Of the numerous opinions expressed or unexpressed, ranging from polite incredulity to unholy joy or open contempt, the only quality which all these opinions held in common was their invidiousness.

From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)