0 likely to cause unhappiness or be unpleasant, especially because it is unfair:
1 likely to cause unhappiness or offense:
We are not going to seek for invidious comparisons between governments.
The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
But it means that such movements are easily denounced and considered invidious.
The latter would be invidious in this case.
Choosing between them thus becomes an invidious task.
Not only does the argument lead to insoluble theoretical and practical problems, but it also has invidious consequences.
Citations have become invidious capital in academic culture.
However, it also places professionals in the invidious position of struggling to continue to provide services despite limited access to alternative understandings of dementia.
The unity they posited in the nation had to contend with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
