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Example sentences for "invidiously"

Lexicographically close words:
inveterately; invicem; invidia; invidiam; invidious; invierno; invigorate; invigorated; invigorates; invigorating
  1. Once among the towers above, she became so interested in the windy corridors, mildewed dungeons, and the tribe of daws peering invidiously upon her from overhead, that she forgot the flight of time.

  2. Here, then, is the cue to the cry so early and generally raised, so often and invidiously renewed by the London daily press, of surprise at the meagerness of our country's share in the Great Exhibition.

  3. But the merchant himself could invidiously and continuously rob the customer without fear of any law.

  4. His practice, which was once [very extensive] invidiously great.

  5. When one of his little pragmatical foes was invidiously snarling at his fame, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's table, the Reverend Dr.

  6. The miserable routinists who keep repeating invidiously Cowper's "God made the country and man made the town," as if the town were a place to kill out the race in, do not know what they are talking about.

  7. Had what now really prevailed with Strether been but a dread of that thump--a dread of wincing a little painfully at what it might invidiously demonstrate?

  8. No mention, however, was made of the duty upon tea, and the Americans looked upon this omission as having been purposely and invidiously made, as a mark of the legislative supremacy of Great Britain.

  9. The temper of the house, as displayed towards Mr. Grattan, was harsh, invidiously national on all sides, and especially offensive to the popular party in Ireland.

  10. They came toward us from under the archway to which Mr. Ruck had somewhat invidiously alluded, slowly and with a jaded air.

  11. Their curiosity was so invidiously human that they were supposed to be too addicted to gossip, and they certainly kept up their acquaintance with the affairs of other people.

  12. It isn't a question for us of apportioning shares or distinguishing invidiously among such impressions as it was our idea to give.

  13. A tone of humble supplication pervades all their language, which some might invidiously contrast with their unbending haughtiness in prosperity.

  14. We positively disown (say they) as horrid murder, the killing of any because of a different persuasion or opinion from us, albeit some have invidiously cast this odious calumny upon us.

  15. The phrase reminds us that there was a time when the enterprise of science and the moral interests of men both moved in a universe invidiously distinguished from that of ordinary occurrence.

  16. More than once, this essay has intimated that the counterpart of the idea of invidiously real reality is the spectator notion of knowledge.

  17. The earlier man had been what he invidiously remembered--yet would he had been the whole simpler story!

  18. It is invidiously described as maintaining "the sufficiency of private judgment.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invidiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    harmfully; malevolently; maliciously; malignantly; meanly