invidious

So it is perhaps invidious to single out a moment or a person.

It would be invidious for me to make the choice.

Morris said the police had been in an invidious position.

The role of black teachers in apartheid education is even more invidious.

My mother never made invidious comparisons when she told me these family stories.

The change had been invidious, and we hadn't really taken it in.

It is almost invidious to single out specific examples of success.

It's none of my business and it puts me in an invidious position.

Then he was struck from nowhere by a more invidious thought.

Privately people made another, even more invidious comparison among themselves.

I would rather we left the system without invidious distinctions between rich and poor.

This obviously places any nominee director in an invidious position.

We realize you find yourself in an invidious situation through no fault of your own.

On the American highway a new invidious distinction was born.

That is an invidious choice for an aircraft commander to have to make.

Wondrous, and not always invidious, are the ways of fashion.

For surely no two men were ever left in a position so invidious and irritating.

"But doesn't this put you in a somewhat invidious position?"

It would be tiresome (and perhaps invidious) to list them.

Was the scenario anything more than a fantasy, an invidious fiction?

All present were now placed in an invidious situation.

A possibly more invidious problem with home insurance, however, is misleading language in policies themselves.

But whether the methods were benign or brutal, the result is just as invidious.

Let's get the invidious comparisons out of the way.

It may be invidious to require a court to make such aesthetic judgments.