invidiousness

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

From Slate • May 14, 2012

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)

“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

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

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