invidious

How To Use invidious In A Sentence

• Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
• Yet again invidious comparisons are made with our continental neighbours whose milk consumption, in part because of very different climatic conditions, is overwhelmingly of UHT milk. Archive 2007-10-14
• By the way, in case you never thought about it, “Reds” is an invidious term calculated to dehumanize radical activists. Dry up the tears for that golden period in US Journalism that never was
• My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class. Black and White
• And what you call invidious ghettos were great defences, they were havens, oases of peace and respect. Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God?
• England is not best understood by invidious comparison with France.
• I met a lot of people and generalisations are always invidious.
• They were put in an invidious position by the game's governing body. Times, Sunday Times
• It is an invidious position: we are part of the European Union and are integrated at many levels, except the crucial financial one.
• We find ourselves in the invidious position of being partners in this German enterprise and as partners inevitably sharing the responsibility. Refugees in the Age of Total War