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What does invidious mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a distinction) Offensively or unfairly discriminating.
  2. (of an action or task) Causing ill will towards the actor; causing offense.
  3. (of a thing) Causing envy or ill will towards the possessor.
  4. (obsolete) Envious, jealous.
  5. (obsolete) Detestable, hateful, odious.
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Despite the hullabaloo, and the invidious position into which he has allowed himself to be manoeuvred, it looks as if he will hold on to his job.
The novice manager accepts he finds himself in an invidious position following in the footsteps of a man who could have achieved no more.
Such stressors are potentially invidious not least because people may not experience these as unpleasant or be conscious of their effects.
I find myself in the invidious position of having to go out and ask whoever it is if they would mind waiting five minutes.
There is patently no legitimate overriding purpose independent of invidious racial discrimination which justifies this classification.
Schumacher is in an invidious position, but as a team player he must take the rough with the smooth.

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