Invidious

Word INVIDIOUS
Character 9
Hyphenation in vid i ous
Pronunciations /ɪnˈvɪdi.əs/

Definitions and meanings of "Invidious"

What do we mean by invidious?

Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment. adjective

Offensive and unfair. adjective

Envious. adjective

Envious; causing or arising from envy.

Enviable; desirable.

Prompted by or expressing or adapted to excite envious dislike or ill will; offensively or unfairly discriminating: as, invidious distinctions or comparisons.

Hence Hateful; odious; detestable.

Synonyms Invidious, Offensive. Invidious, having lost its subjective sense of envious, now means producing or likely to produce ill feeling because bringing persons or their belongings into contrast with others in an unjust or mortifying way: as, an invidious comparison or distinction. The ill feeling thus produced would be not envy, but resentment, on account of wounded pride. Offensive is a general word, covering invidious and all other words characterizing that which gives offense.

Envious; malignant. adjective

Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable. adjective

Likely to or intended to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy or resentment; hateful; offensive. adjective

Offensively or unfairly discriminating adjective

Causing ill will towards the actor; causing offense. adjective

Causing envy or ill will towards the possessor adjective

Envious, jealous adjective

Hateful; odious; detestable adjective

Containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice adjective

Causing ill will, envy, or offense.

(of a distinction) Offensively or unfairly discriminating.

Envious, jealous.

Detestable, hateful, odious.

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A feeling of hopelessness, dread, insecurity, envy and hatred felt when you see a lifestyle you know you will never live, a beautiful girl you know would never look your way, or an attractive person you know you will never look like. Different from envy in the sense that invidiance is accompanied by an overwhelming wave of depression and self hatred and usually physically manifests as your stomach turning or aching. Urban Dictionary

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The word "invidious" in example sentences

And what you call invidious ghettos were great defences, they were havens, oases of peace and respect. ❋ Anushka Asthana (2010)

I do think the propensity of Americans to engage in invidious discrimination really has diminished, and diminished to the point of where much of the 1964 Act is unnecessary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Clearly Dewey believed that political and economic conditions im modern societies encouraged an "alienation" from the aesthetic qualities of an "act of production," and to that extent Dewey's insistence that distinctions between fine and useful art are invidious is a politically-implicated gesture. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Alternatively, Congress should have more leeway to fashion remedies because the states are more likely to be engaging in invidious discrimination where laws or practices touching upon suspect classifications are concerned. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This paper had been particularly disagreeable concerning the “dividend-cooking” system of certain of the Comstock mines, at the same time calling invidious attention to safer investments in California stocks. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This paper had been particularly disagreeable concerning the "dividend-cooking" system of certain of the Comstock mines, at the same time calling invidious attention to safer investments in California stocks. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

"dividend-cooking" system of certain of the Comstock mines, at the same time calling invidious attention to safer investments in California stocks. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

As Thorsten Veblen taught us with the notion of invidious comparison, in a product category where absolute quality is hard to measure—wines, coffee, supercars—people assume the more expensive item is somehow intrinsically better. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

What one person calls natural preference another calls invidious, immoral, or bigotry. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As regards the conservation of propensities, spiritual attitude, or animus, the two may be called the invidious or self-regarding and the non-invidious or economical. ❋ Unknown (1899)

McKennon v Nashville Banner Publishing Co. (1995), is that the law will properly concern itself only when it discovers something called invidious discrimination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, we often read in opinions of "invidious" discrimination. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The third, Further Observation on the Terrestrial Convulsions (1756), is a refutation of superstitious causes such as invidious astrological conjunctions. ❋ Schönfeld, Martin (2007)

No, it's really that the kind of invidious urbanity which characterizes some aspects of Parisian French culture is not as inviting to me as those qualities of cosmopolitan generosity that we shared with them in what I think is our most wonderful period. ❋ Unknown (1989)

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“When I see her walking with that guy who is significantly more attractive than me, I feel a sense of [invidiance]. [I feel sick], sad and [hateful] towards myself and others.” ❋ Jonathan Gunkus (2023)

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