Same thing with her long, straight, shining hair, which was of a richer color than the slightly false-seeming yellow of his own: she had the platonic teen-girl hair to which other girls compared their own invidiously

One of the most inviduous tasks of the conservative theologian is to explain how a loving God can allow people to suffer for all of eternity

Leonardo’s invidious compliments only provoked more of my bookish rhetoric

Lenin has fought a lonely battle insisting that the invidious demands be accepted

I need you to appreciate that I have been placed in an extremely invidious situation

If it is pleasant for a time, it is unpleasant eventually by our having to leave it soon, or by invidious comparison which all humans make with something better.

to put the point less invidiously

To say that a painting is like a story is a pedestrian utterance, not altogether untrue, but uninspired, though that hardly stops people from making such invidious and unwarranted comparisons.

This, not coincidentally, is the same invidious rhetoric of superior virtue favored by the liberal’s adversary.

But he could already hear Enid's invidious descants on the topic of Denise's wonderfulness.

the temptation, though, to unreel an invidious procession of mighty literary figures parading across the centuries