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adj. Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment: invidious accusations.

adj. Containing or implying a slight; discriminatory: invidious distinctions.

adj. Envious.

adj. offensively or unfairly discriminating

adj. causing ill will towards the actor; causing offense.

adj. causing envy or ill will towards the possessor

adj. envious, jealous

adj. Hateful; odious; detestable

adj. Envious; malignant.

adj. Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable.

adj. Likely to or intended to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy or resentment; hateful; offensive.

Envious; causing or arising from envy.

Enviable; desirable.

Prompted by or expressing or adapted to excite envious dislike or ill will; offensively or unfairly discriminating: as, invidious distinctions or comparisons.

Hence Hateful; odious; detestable.

Synonyms Invidious, Offensive. Invidious, having lost its subjective sense of envious, now means producing or likely to produce ill feeling because bringing persons or their belongings into contrast with others in an unjust or mortifying way: as, an invidious comparison or distinction. The ill feeling thus produced would be not envy, but resentment, on account of wounded pride. Offensive is a general word, covering invidious and all other words characterizing that which gives offense.

adj. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice

"Clearly Dewey believed that political and economic conditions im modern societies encouraged an "alienation" from the aesthetic qualities of an "act of production," and to that extent Dewey's insistence that distinctions between fine and useful art are invidious is a politically-implicated gesture."

unfavourable    unfavorable   

invidiously    invidiousness   

envious    malignant    desirable    enviable    hateful   

fastidious    hideous    insidious   

unkind    unfavourable    uncharitable    impolitic    hurtful