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Six example sentences with invidious, each labelled with its topic.
The committee drew an invidious distinction between neighborhoods, funding one library generously while the other waited another decade.
Politics
The essay makes an invidious comparison between the two sisters, praising one writer and treating the other as decoration.
Literature
Ranking countries by a single wage figure produces invidious league tables that ignore how far the money actually goes.
Economics
Printing every salary on one notice board made invidious comparisons unavoidable, and two colleagues stopped speaking within a week.
Business
Parents who make invidious comparisons between siblings, praising one as the clever one, tend to raise two resentful children.
Psychology
Ranking the two guards in public was invidious, since the one placed second had carried the team through every injury.
Basketball
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