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invidious
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    "Rotgut," he muttered to himself after a particularly invidious remark.†  (source)
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    The task would be an invidious one and one beyond my poor powers.†  (source)
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    Some imaginative ground for invidious comment there was.†  (source)
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    People began to say "Who are they?" but no invidious inquiries were made.†  (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    I beg you take all this as I mean it, which, Heaven knows, is not invidiously.†  (source)
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    But, in after days, when the frenzy of that hideous epoch had subsided, it was remembered how loudly Colonel Pyncheon had joined in the general cry, to purge the land from witchcraft; nor did it fail to be whispered, that there was an invidious acrimony in the zeal with which he had sought the condemnation of Matthew Maule.†  (source)
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