How to Use invidious in a Sentence

invidious

adjective

• The boss made invidious distinctions between employees.
• Those invidious assumptions are reflected these days all over TV and in the movies.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• The more invidious reason to claim that people are born with certain traits is to avoid having to help people do any better.
  — Eugenia Cheng, Wired, 25 Aug. 2020
• Tech companies are increasingly facing the invidious choice of which side of the divide to be on.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• The statement compared Israel’s border wall to the Berlin Wall and drew indirect but invidious analogies to apartheid, slavery and Nazism.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
• Of course, comparisons to Davidson’s greatest hits are not just invidious but unfair to Ritchie.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• Closer to home, the mechanisms of repression are less heavy-handed, but no less invidious in their intent.
  — Laura Beers, CNN, 6 May 2022
• Most Justices in Wygant seemed to consider racial bias to be less invidious in hiring than firing decisions.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• Again and again, the metaphor gets invoked by leading politicians, typically as a warning against a hidden, invidious threat.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2020
• And people are pretty good at seeing their own behavior in the best light and pretty bad at seeing an invidious pattern to their assumptions.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2019
• As to what happens next, the Australian government has put itself in an invidious position.
  — Tim Soutphommasane and Marc Stears, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
• The Wirecard fraud has again brought to public attention the invidious negligence of some auditors.
  — Karthik Ramanna, Fortune, 11 July 2020
• Still others objected to the idea of a list in the first place, noting its intrinsically arbitrary and invidious nature.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2018
• Farewell to the debt collectors, the invidious bureaucrats, the endless frustrations.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Mr Trump’s behaviour forced on Congress an invidious choice.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Doniger’s invidious contrast of the poetic quality of the work between its first and second books is as much a consequence of the text itself as of the poetic prowess of the translators and editors involved.
  — Wendy Doniger, The New York Review of Books, 7 Apr. 2022
• In many respects, Mr Trump has placed military leaders in an invidious position.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2020
• The 14th Amendment requires the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations.
  — Karl R. Bauman, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• Because there is only one motive—to realize a maximum of benefit at a minimum of cost—those who do not flourish are losers in an invidious, Darwinian sense.
  — Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
• This fusion of racial grievance and post-racialism created a toxic brew, poisonous to the ongoing efforts to contest white supremacy and protective of the invidious status quo that the Voting Rights Act had tried to interrupt.
  — Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2020
• Even this, however, failed to impress the invidious keepers of independent rock music.
  — M.t. Richards, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
• Even California’s liberal electorate signaled last month that crude and invidious affirmative action should remain a thing of the past.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• His writing demystifies the world before us, dispelling the cloud created by the chaotic motivations and invidious narcissism of the market.
  — Tiana Reid, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
• Did Congress, in enacting Section 1182(f), authorize the President to deny entry to a class of aliens on the basis of invidious discrimination?
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 28 May 2017
• Laid bare, this executive order is no more than what the President promised before and after his election: naked invidious discrimination against Muslims.
  — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 28 May 2017
• My study suggests chilling effects, due to online surveillance and other legal/regulatory threats, put all of these freedoms at risk in subtle and invidious ways while affecting certain people or groups more than others.
  — Jonathon W. Penney, Slate Magazine, 7 July 2017
• Monday’s ruling won’t open the floodgates to invidious discrimination as critics imagine.
  — Ryan T. Anderson, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• When Britain’s death toll from the virus first surpassed those of other European countries in May, Johnson argued that country-to-country comparisons were invidious because governments collect and analyze data differently.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2020
• Considering painters and sculptors in groups generates invidious hierarchies—most innovative, most original—that can relegate accomplished but less than dazzling artists to the sidelines.
  — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
• Infidels are by definition misguided and prone to ignorant, invidious ideas.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022

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