But the enemy hath acted invidiously towards me through the tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings] Reference
The truth is, the miserable routinists who keep repeating invidiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
There is a certain distinction about it, from which the new-comer is invidiously excluded. From Wordnik.com. [HOUSEKEEPING IN THE KLONDIKE] Reference
We do not draw this comparison invidiously, but merely to illustrate the advantages of literary economy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829] Reference
May I be permitted to advert -- by no means invidiously -- to the late contest carried on by South Carolina against. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
In Iran, though, the minority is the progressive side, invidiously more successful, but self-aware of the discrepancy. From Wordnik.com. [Indistinguishable From Magic] Reference
The conversation had been swung in that direction by Mrs. Morse, who had been invidiously singing the praises of Mr. Hapgood. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 29] Reference
As damning as Christie, she compared it invidiously to Bonnie and Clyde and singled it out as an example of “safe” cinema. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
Yes, thou shalt revisit the land of thy birth, I thought, as I looked invidiously on the airy voyager; but we shall, never more!. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
Report, however, had invidiously declared that Georgiana looked with a cold and contemptuous eye upon the addresses of all save two. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,] Reference
The strange new respect for the tea-party movement suggests that this approach is too invidiously partisan even for the mainstream media. From Wordnik.com. [Strange New Respect] Reference
I would not invidiously compare the unfortunate black to the 'dregs of the populace,' since labor in any form must not be lightly spoken of. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
This is said, or meant to be said, not invidiously nor boastingly, but in the candid utterance of a great and practically demonstrated truth. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
Moran has a point inasmuch as white Americans (or at least those in the Deep South) were highly race-conscious, and invidiously so, back in 1922. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
But the default rates are the same, showing that private lenders neither discriminate invidiously, nor practice affirmative action in lending decisions. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Patterico’s LA Times On Immigration And Race] Reference
Germanicus persisted no longer; though he knew that this was all feigned and hollow, and saw himself invidiously torn away from a harvest of ripe glory. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Our sole interest is to ensure that employment criteria are not invidiously discriminatory on their face, and are implemented in a nondiscriminatory manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Fight Over University Women] Reference
Anyway, let's salute Barack Obama for taking a stand for decency, for protecting his two young daughters from invidiously racist and misogynistic stereotypes. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
One way to tell if you are using the somebody-nobody distinction invidiously (as a rationalization for rankist behavior) is to notice to whom you keep your promises. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Fuller: Eight Ways You Can Stop Rankism] Reference
It may be, also, that for the most part they are false, or misreported invidiously, or misapplied; and, true or false, have been sufficiently avenged by severe retortions. From Wordnik.com. [A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity] Reference
The miserable routinists who keep repeating invidiously Cowper's. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
The one hope is in two legions invidiously detained and almost not belonging to us. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference
Also I shrank from the bigoted "two-bottle-orthodox," as they were invidiously called. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
I say this not invidiously, but in justice to the beauties which surround our own metropolis. From Wordnik.com. [Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881] Reference
"Well," asked the Counsellor invidiously, "and, pray, what is there to prevent you doing all this?". From Wordnik.com. [Secret des Champdoce. English] Reference
I am afraid that while Bessie's imagination was thus invidiously roaming, she cannot have been herself. From Wordnik.com. [An International Episode] Reference
But I was removed at a fatal distance from him, and doubtless my conduct must have been invidiously misrepresented. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02] Reference
We divide them invidiously into hack reviewers and critics, forgetting that a hack is just a reviewer overworked, and. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
And then it would have been added invidiously -- 'Better men than ever stood in your shoes have borne worse language. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference
Or the proverb may be used invidiously; and folly in the vocabulary of envy or baseness may signify courage and magnanimity. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
He did not wield the ready, punctual pen of him whom Lockhart most invidiously calls "the bronzed and mother-naked gentleman of the Press.". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference
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