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But all suppositions of this kind are invidious, and ought to be banished from the consideration of the great question before the people. (source)invidious = tending to arouse resentment, prejudice, or other ill will
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The cold sunlight of this spring evening peered invidiously upon the crocks and kettles, upon the bunches of dried herbs shivering in the breeze, upon the brass handles of the dresser, upon the wicker-cradle they had all been rocked in, and upon the well-rubbed clock-case, all of which gave out the reproachful gleam of indoor articles abandoned to the vicissitudes of a roofless exposure for which they were never made.† (source)
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I beg you take all this as I mean it, which, Heaven knows, is not invidiously.† (source)
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And that is the only gulf that separates my friends here from those who are invidiously called the blest.† (source)
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Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.† (source)
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"Rotgut," he muttered to himself after a particularly invidious remark.† (source)
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The idea is too gross and too invidious to be entertained.† (source)invidious = tending to arouse resentment, prejudice, or other ill will
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What she felt was that a territorial, a political, a social magnate had conceived the design of drawing her into the system in which he rather invidiously lived and moved.† (source)
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Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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The task would be an invidious one and one beyond my poor powers.† (source)
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What she felt was that a territorial, a political, a social magnate had conceived the design of drawing her into the system in which he rather invidiously lived and moved.† (source)
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Some imaginative ground for invidious comment there was.† (source)
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But in order to safeguard Clyde against any chance of failure or even invidious comment of any kind, not only she but Bertine and Jill and Gertrude were to be attentive to and considerate of him.† (source)
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This was the invidious distinction between them and the Sour-doughs, who, forsooth, made their bread from sour-dough because they had no bakingpowder.† (source)
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She had as many priests to stay with her as could be needed—and even the priests did not want a gorgeous chapel in that place where it would have merely seemed an invidious instance of ostentation.† (source)
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Consider the intimate and curious acquaintance one makes with various kinds of weeds—it will bear some iteration in the account, for there was no little iteration in the labor—disturbing their delicate organizations so ruthlessly, and making such invidious distinctions with his hoe, levelling whole ranks of one species, and sedulously cultivating another.† (source)
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