invidious in English

adjective
1
(of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others.
she'd put herself in an invidious position

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "invidious" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "invidious", or refer to the context using the word "invidious" in the English Dictionary.

1. Invidious profiteering of people reflects invidious profiteering of South Korea is a country!

2. His explanation was actually invidious.

3. Police officers fear invidious comparisons.

4. The officer feared the invidious accusations.

5. It is invidious to make a selection.

6. She'd put herself in an invidious position.

7. Wise teachers avoid invidious rules against the students.

8. Doesn't this put Alsys in an invidious position?

9. Such a difficult choice placed her in an invidious and unenviable position.

10. Now this had all sorts of invidious social consequences.

11. But doing so would put regulators in an invidious position.

12. This obviously places any nominee director in an invidious position.

13. Such a tactic is calculated, methodical, invidious — and remarkably effective.

14. TYPICAL USE : Wise teachers avoid invidious rules against the students.

15. Such a difficult choice placed her in an invidious position.

16. It would be invidious to single out any one person to thank.

17. Marx concentrates on the alienation of labour and emphasizes the invidious aspects.

18. It is almost invidious to single out specific examples of success.

19. You put me in an invidious position by asking me to comment on my colleague's work.

20. It'seems invidious to make special mention of one aspect of his work.

21. Once I had heard about the GreyCoyne report, I was in an invidious position.

22. 4 By innocently lying to detectives, she'd put herself in an invidious position .

23. It'seemed to tell also that his success had not been exclussive and invidious.

24. The local authority could find itself in the invidious position of having to refuse.

25. The ruling may create an invidious distinction in the way the courts treat the rich and the poor.

26. We were in the invidious position of having to choose whether to break the law or risk lives.

27. In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom, the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance.

28. This would seem to invite an invidious comparison between white youth who are unemployed and their more successful black peers.

29. Washington hurried dutifully to her side as befitted his lover's status, then remembered his invidious position and sidled away again.

30. Colorado’s neo-prohibitionists and marijuana re-Criminalizers have come up with an invidious new two-pronged strategy with which to attack legal marijuana in Colorado

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32. Established primarily to relieve the bishops and presbyters of their more secular and invidious duties, notably in distributing the alms of the faithful, we need not do more than recall the large place occupied by the Agapae, or love feasts, in the early worship of the

33. (2) I do so also in the recognition that, in the confusion of tongues between the potentially non-invidious generosities of adult care and the scenes of queer adolescent turmoil on which they might appear, such a mode of care is exceptionally, vanishingly difficult to bring to Articulacy…