Invidious synonyms

ĭn-vĭd'ē-əs

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injurious
Injuring or likely to cause injury; harmful
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discriminatory
Discriminating, or distinguishing
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hateful
Nasty, unpleasant, objectionable, etc.
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repugnant
Causing repugnance; distasteful; offensive; disagreeable
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odious
The definition of odious is something that is extremely unpleasant or hated.
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harmful (related)
Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
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offensive (related)
Of, relating to, or designed for attack:
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unfair (related)
Contrary to justice or a sense of fairness:
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defamatory
Used in reference to an utterance, to indicate that it is false and harmful to the reputation of another.
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detestable
The definition of detestable is disgusting, hateful or awful.
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envious
The definition of envious is showing desire for what others have.
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jealous
Envious; feeling resentful of someone for a perceived advantage, material or otherwise. [from 14th c.]
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objectionable
Open to objection
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vicious
Harmful, unwholesome, or noxious
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desirable (antonym)
Worth having or seeking, as by being useful, advantageous, or pleasing:
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pleasant (antonym)
The definition of pleasant is someone or something that is agreeable, enjoyable or likable.
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lovable (antonym)
Inspiring love; easily loved; endearing
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likeable (antonym)
Alternative spelling of likable.
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delightful (antonym)
The definition of delightful is someone or something that is charming or that causes happiness and joy.
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calumnious
Full of calumnies; slanderous
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scandalous
Causing scandal; shocking:
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slanderous
Characterized by or constituting slander
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libelous
Given to writing and publishing libels; defamatory
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covetous
Tending to covet; greedy; avaricious
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green-eyed
Of or having to do with jealousy
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attack (related)
Designed or used for carrying out a hostile or aggressive attack
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crimes (related)
Damaging to the reputation
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law (related)
A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of an ideal gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. The conditions under which some physical laws hold are idealized (for example, there are no ideal gases in the real world), thus some physical laws apply universally but only approximately.
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desire (related)
Resentfully or painfully desirous of another's advantages
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untenable (related)
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unconscionable (related)
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unpalatable (related)
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spiteful
The definition of spiteful is someone who purposely does harm to another.
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detractive
Tending to detract or draw.
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Invidious Sentence Examples

  • What often happens in such cases can be very invidious for all concerned.

  • Here are no reproaches, no base and sly insinuations, none of those invidious reflections with which controversies are usually managed.

  • It is perhaps invidious to criticize such an ambitious and fundamentally valuable undertaking as this on these grounds.

  • It is however invidious to have different funding mechanisms applying to young people's learning opportunities.

  • Naming names within a short exercise in reminiscence like this is always invidious, but there are two names which must not go unrecorded.

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