Sentence examples for be invidious from inspiring English sources

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be invidious

adjective

Offensively or unfairly discriminating.

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The longer-term effects, however, are likely to be invidious.

Comparisons may be invidious, but they can also be illuminating.

Comparing San Francisco's commuter rail system's bike accommodations with New York's may be invidious.

For a work established in reiteration, it may be invidious to pick out one definitive version.

(She) Dumping you would be invidious: You're already old and hideous.

Although dudehood seems to be conferred nowadays for durability as much as for merit, comparisons needn't be invidious.

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Such generalisations are invidious.

Any comparisons were invidious.

It's invidious to separate each contribution.

It would have been invidious to choose between them.

Blair says it is "invidious to criticised from the outside".

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