Examples of 'invidious' in a sentence
Meaning of "invidious"
Invidious (adjective): Likely to arouse resentment or anger in others. It is used to describe actions or situations that are likely to cause feelings of envy, resentment, or unfairness
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- Causing ill will, envy, or offense.
- Offensively or unfairly discriminating.
- Envious, jealous.
- Detestable, hateful, odious.
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I can see you are in a most invidious position.
And my invidious behavior is going to be well worth it.
Sweden indeed has been placed in an invidious position.
This is the invidious nature of the slave system.
That man has put me in a most invidious position.
It would be invidious for me to name them.
Discrimination of that kind is invidious per se.
This is an invidious and an odious power.
And the lack of progress puts me in an invidious position.
That is an invidious choice for an aircraft commander to have to make.
I think we could show invidious discrimination.
To be graded on that basis can be invidious.
Mileva faced the obvious invidious prejudice of being a woman.
Of course we do what we can to conceal this invidious truth.
It is invidious to choose between them.
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I am here this evening in an invidious position.
Invidious to make these statements.
No other country enjoys its invidious strength situation.
They are invidious because they continue to maim and kill indiscriminately.
Friend tempts me to make invidious comparisons.
Enough invidious discrimination.
And it is not as if he himself is taking sides in these invidious comparisons.
It would be invidious to name names.
I do not see how this would encourage invidious comparisons.
Envy is invidious comparison.
I do not want to be invidious here.
But the invidious subversion of sport reaches far beyond our region.
Now this had all sorts of invidious social consequences.
Invidious to oppress him with any other of the numerous such like.
I tend to make invidious comparison.
I do not want to place you and the government in an invidious position.
While with invidious onion.
This seems to be putting our selves into a rather invidious position.
That is an invidious legacy.
Such generalisations are invidious.
I have an invidious task.
I just hope that whatever you are getting out of your invidious behavior.
It is just an invidious comparison.
It is nevertheless worth questioning why his work occupies such an invidious position.
This is an invidious choice.
They believed that this classification violated the equal protection clause as irrational and invidious.
His grin is invidious.
An invidious one.
Leaving nothing behind but footprints and invidious colonial regimes.
Invidious Dominion is the eleventh studio album by the Floridian death metal band Malevolent Creation.
The process is invidious.
Rather, invidious discrimination in access to nutrition and health facilities was the major culprit.
With this intellectual change may come a more invidious transformation.
The task would be an invidious one and one beyond my poor powers.
I must say social workers have a very difficult and invidious task to perform.
