invidious in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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invidious in the PONS Dictionary

invidious Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be in an invidious position
estar en una posición poco envidiable
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Sadder still when the survivors are parents: poor people left in that most awful, invidious limbo of having survived a child.
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How strange then that its female counterpart shouldn't also be strung up for being just as charmless and invidious.
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Now on this occasion we have one member who's been put in the invidious position of having to take the life of another person.
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This leaves central bankers in an invidious position.
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It's an invidious task to give such an address today.
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We think it's invidious that somebody should be on a list and drawn to the public's attention that they're not the best.
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It puts them in an invidious position, but also it's just inappropriate to our system of government and to a non-politicised, non-political military.
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With such a range, it is almost invidious to single out any, but three papers seemed particularly useful.
www.independent.co.uk
While there are many dimensions to growing inequality, perhaps the most invidious is inequality of opportunity.
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No invidious discrimination is made against anyone by the measures adopted.
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