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.
Yet, it runs the risk of placing judges in the invidious position of not offering effective remedies to claimants, while seriously annoying the political branches of the state.
It would be invidious to press the point too much, other than to say firmly that the reader should proceed with care.
Certainly, there is little evidence that residency programs make their selections on the basis of invidious judgments about the perceived value of candidates' lives.
If the invidious comparison with and distinction from the other is implicit, it is nevertheless real.
With such a broad range, singling out any particular papers seems invidious, and would only reflect the narrower compass of the reviewer.
The quality varies but it would be invidious to attempt any specific evaluations of their scholarship in such a short review.
It is a first-class exposition of what we know, and it would be invidious to raise a critical eyebrow about it.
The unity they posited in the nation had to contend with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
