Definitions for invidious

invidious in·vid·i·ous

Spelling: [in-vid-ee-uh s]
IPA: /ɪnˈvɪd i əs/

Invidious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in invidious (diiinosuv).

Definitions for invidious

adjective

  1. calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful:
  2. offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious:
  3. causing or tending to cause animosity, resentment, or envy:
  4. Obsolete. envious.

Origin of invidious

1600-10; Latin invidiōsus envious, envied, hateful, equivalent to invidi(a) envy + -ōsus -ous

Examples for invidious

His only approach to invidious comment was in regard to the terrapin.

Tevi Troy eschews any invidious mention of right-of-center think tanks in his critique.

Several exceptions must be understood; but to select them would be invidious.

It seemed to move in her a little, exactly, that sense of the invidious.

For surely no two men were ever left in a position so invidious and irritating.

I remonstrated, rather annoyed at the invidious position she was forcing on me in a sense.

Egoism does not necessarily imply the invidious stigma of selfishness.

And this was the only allusion that the young man was ever to hear her make to his invidious kinswoman.

The drive toward nihilism is invidious, and it adds a substantial layer of risk to the financial world and markets.

This raises at once the just complaint that invidious distinctions are made.

Word Value for invidious
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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