Example Sentences

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What institutional purpose would it serve to discriminate invidiously against any group?

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022

This parable of resistance to a rising plague of authoritarianism was savaged by the French critics, who couldn’t help invidiously comparing the work to the author’s novel “The Plague.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2017

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

In recalling the other five companies I begin, invidiously, by singling out three dancers.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2012

Mead has invidiously remarked of Woodward, that he gathered shells and stones, and would pass for a philosopher.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel