Sentence examples for would be invidious from inspiring English sources

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

It would be invidious to name names, but the authors of such memoirs should heed George Orwell.

Of course it would be invidious to compare the two, but it is still difficult even now for me to grasp just how much he meant to me.

It would be invidious to suggest an apt canine description for Lord Goldsmith, who would indignantly repudiate any suggestion that he is Tony Blair's poodle.

It would be invidious of me to say what on because in the end I couldn't get him so somebody else played the part.

He declines to identify a favorite work in the museum, saying it would be invidious to choose; but, when pressed, he confesses to a particular fondness for "The Harvesters," by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

It would, we think, be invidious for one book to bear a low-ish estimate, and another to have one of many thousands.

It would have been invidious to choose between them.

The judges for the 2011 London Evening Standard awards said it would have been "invidious not to recognise both actors" for what were memorable performances in Frankenstein, the Danny Boyle-directed production.

In deciding the best actor prize, the judges - made up of leading theatre critics - said it would have been "invidious" not to recognise both actors.

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