invidious 的定义
- calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.
- offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious: invidious comparisons.
- causing or tending to cause animosity, resentment, or envy: an invidious honor.
- Obsolete. envious.
invidious 近义词
hateful
更多invidious例句
- Neal Katyal, a Georgetown law professor arguing on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, said the broad ruling sought by Catholic Social Services would open the door to invidious discrimination — not just against LGBTQ couples.
- Can we find a way to prevent invidious discrimination without subjecting ourselves to government-enforced ideologies?
- Tevi Troy eschews any invidious mention of right-of-center think tanks in his critique.
- The drive toward nihilism is invidious, and it adds a substantial layer of risk to the financial world and markets.
- Unfortunately, the yoke of the foreigner came in more invidious guise.
- It is, therefore, (p. 224) a matter of individual taste, and further comparisons would be invidious and perhaps unjust.
- There was little indeed to be amused at here except his choice of the particular invidious name.
- Several exceptions must be understood; but to select them would be invidious.
- That invidious task they leave to the unsuccessful novelists.