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invidious
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Definition:causing animosity or resentment
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The distinction between being native born and foreign born was sharp and invidious in those days.
Jack London. The Iron Heel
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This fable teaches such a multitude of good things that it would be invidious to mention any.
Ambrose Bierce. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
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"He has a happy facility for getting people to agree what a prick he is," Colonel Cargill confided invidiously to ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen in the hopes that ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen would spread this unfavorable report along through Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.121 (1961)
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