INVID'IOUS, adjective [Latin invidiosus, from invideo, to envy; in and video, to see. Invideo signified properly, to look against.] 1. Envious; malignant. 2. Likely to incur ill will or hatred, or to provoke envy; hateful. [This is the usual sense.] Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes.
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