invidiously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Perhaps that’s why no one speaks invidiously of him, even though few major chords are as undiminished as his.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
What institutional purpose would it serve to discriminate invidiously against any group?
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022
Compared invidiously in his early years to the golden age of Rodgers & Hammerstein, he has raised the bar by which composers and lyricists are now judged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2020
It invidiously compares Simon & Schuster, the publisher of “Hothouse,” to Farrar, Straus & Giroux for its conglomerate thinking and general philistinism.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2013
The process of development, thus capable of a logical expression, has sometimes been invidiously spoken of as rationalism and contrasted with faith.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
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