invidiousness

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • May 14, 2012

"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

The invidiousness of knowing and not acting on Oates's 'dangerous secret,' Godfrey hoped, fell on the Minister rather than on himself.

From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Lang, Andrew

I thank God I am free from all national invidiousness.

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

Thus Pedro lost all his property because of his invidiousness.

From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill