Invidious

Indeed, if there’s a common thread between Allen and Harvard, it’s a judicial rejection of invidious racial discrimination.

The four gentlemen of the cast - and it’s invidious to separate them – cover a huge range of roles from politicians to generals to lance-corporals.

What should be verboten, what should be outlawed, which should be prohibited is invidious discrimination in institutions saying, we are going to take this policy because we don’t like them.

Early on when the NGSA was introduced around 2003, there were promises to do away with the invidious comparisons it inevitably created.

But we should never countenance invidious health-care rationing.

Even the most ardent supporters of this administration are aware that our country is being tossed about by an invidious whirlwind.

The court found that Advocate Lewis Uriri, who acted for Buyanga, was in an invidious position in the case, having to ventilate issues from the application drawn up by his instructing lawyer that was insupportable.

The nature of the choice is even more invidious since Alston’s company is one of the few permanent groups that offer young dancers a stable existence, a chance to hone their art in the service of a particular style.

Naming candidates was “invidious” but he mused that an elder Labour statesperson with no long-term ambitions had the best chance.

The invidious utterance or person invites odium more openly.

There is no symmetry between race conscious measures that seek to include traditionally excluded groups and invidious discrimination that seeks to include people because of a sense of superiority or hatred.

Today's vague laws may not be as invidious, but they can invite the exercise of arbitrary power all the same -- by leaving the people in the dark about what the law demands and allowing prosecutors and courts to make it up.

Agamemnon, unwilling to undertake the invidious duty of deciding between the two competitors, referred the dispute to the decision of the Trojan prisoners, inquiring of them which of the two heroes had done most harm to the Trojans.