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

I thank God I am free from all national invidiousness.

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

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

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