Usually means: Causing resentment through unfair comparisons.
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  1. invidious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. invidious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. invidious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. invidious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. invidious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Invidious, invidious: Wordnik
  7. invidious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. invidious: Wiktionary
  9. invidious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. invidious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. invidious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. invidious: Dictionary.com
  13. invidious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. invidious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Invidious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Invidious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. invidious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. invidious: Rhymezone
  19. Invidious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. invidious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. invidious: Free Dictionary
  22. invidious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. invidious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. invidious: Dictionary/thesaurus

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(Note: See invidiously as well.)

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adjective:  Causing ill will, envy, or offense.
adjective:  (of a distinction) Offensively or unfairly discriminating.
adjective:  (obsolete) Envious, jealous.
adjective:  Detestable, hateful, or odious. (Often used in cases of perceived unfairness, or when facing a difficult situation or choice — especially in the phrase invidious position.)

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