0 in a way that is likely to cause unhappiness or be unpleasant, especially because of being unfair:
She feels isolated in the working environment after being invidiously singled out by colleagues.
The committee was accused of discriminating invidiously between white citizens and black.
More invidiously, the authorities are reacting to political pressure in order to be seen to be acting.
Sometimes small local general hospitals are invidiously labeled patient traps, where patients remain instead of being transferred to a more appropriate higher level hospital.
Tax profits openly and fairly all round, if you will; but to pick invidiously and take certain businesses is a very difficult principle to establish.
We are invidiously singling out particular and specially favoured sections of the community for exemption from taxation.
Quite apart from the fact that if you maintain this sub-section as it stands at present, you will be discriminating most invidiously.
A far more gracious act would be to do something on behalf of this invidiously placed community.
