invidiously
Americanadverb
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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
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
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 Samuel Johnson
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