invidiousness

invidious | American Dictionary

invidious
adjective
 fmlus/ɪnˈvɪd·i·əs/
likely to cause unhappiness or offense:
We are not going to seek for invidious comparisons between governments.

Examples of invidious

invidious
The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
But it means that such movements are easily denounced and considered invidious.
The latter would be invidious in this case.
Choosing between them thus becomes an invidious task.
Not only does the argument lead to insoluble theoretical and practical problems, but it also has invidious consequences.
Citations have become invidious capital in academic culture.
However, it also places professionals in the invidious position of struggling to continue to provide services despite limited access to alternative understandings of dementia.
The unity they posited in the nation had to contend with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
It is a first-class exposition of what we know, and it would be invidious to raise a critical eyebrow about it.
The quality varies but it would be invidious to attempt any specific evaluations of their scholarship in such a short review.
With such a broad range, singling out any particular papers seems invidious, and would only reflect the narrower compass of the reviewer.
If the invidious comparison with and distinction from the other is implicit, it is nevertheless real.
Certainly, there is little evidence that residency programs make their selections on the basis of invidious judgments about the perceived value of candidates' lives.
It would be invidious to press the point too much, other than to say firmly that the reader should proceed with care.
Yet, it runs the risk of placing judges in the invidious position of not offering effective remedies to claimants, while seriously annoying the political branches of the state.
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