unpleasant and unfairly discriminating
likely to offend somebody or make them jealous i.e. causing or tending to cause animosity, resentment, or envy
This is a word is express unfair/unjust treatment of something by somebody which may cause resentment or envy to some people.
Usage examples -
- Why do we need to measure who suffered more, a task that as well as being invidious is impossible as nobody can compare the pain of the two races.
- The use of English, as the sole language throughout the electoral process, continues to be discriminatory and has a direct and invidious impact upon the ability of such populations (with limited ability to read English) to participate actively in the electoral process.
- We were in the invidious position of having to choose whether to break the law or risk lives.
- It would be invidious to single out any one person to thank.
- Are you saying that it’s not possible for laws to be in place due to invidious ideas about gender (or race, or other things)? Of course you’re not. That would be idiotic.
Words invidious and envious have the same Latin root. Invidious is used to refer to something unfair that causes envy.
Additional note -
This word is strongly related to the idea of unfair/unjust.
Unfair fight.
Unfair tug of war
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