1. invidious - Adjective
2. invidious - Adjective Satellite
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 dictionaryThe 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