invidiousness
Noun
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Noun
invidiousness (uncountable)
- (rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch. 20
- Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch. 20
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