0 the quality of being likely to cause unhappiness or being unpleasant, especially because of being unfair:
They call him 'Piggy', but familiar use has worn off the invidiousness of the title.
There is such invidiousness and corruption in the way funds are allocated.
He accused us of invidiousness; that we were treating foreigners badly.
I cannot, without invidiousness, mention all of them.
There seems to be just as much inconsistency and invidiousness.
That is only another aspect of the invidiousness of having to make a selection.
They are conceived in prejudice, and will be administered with invidiousness.
The satirists saw in opera the "non plus ultra" of invidiousness.
