invidious

Speech parts

1. invidious - Adjective

2. invidious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Envious; malignant.

Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable.

Likely to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy; hateful; as, invidious distinctions.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

discriminatory difficult evil offensive bitter unpleasant awkward jealous malicious unjust cursed awful nasty objectionable scandalous
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Antonyms

able fair acceptable attractive adequate favorable
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Related terms

invidiously invidiousness

Examples

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. Thorstein Veblen

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... John Dryden

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. Arundhati Roy

Partial freedom seems to me the most invidious form of slavery. Edmund Burke

Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied. John Jay

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding. Pliny the Elder

Close letter words and terms

inviably invict invidia invidiously invidiousness invigilance