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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·vid·i·ous a.
 1. Envious; malignant. [Obs.]
 2. Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable. [Obs.]
    Such a person appeareth in a far more honorable and invidious state than any prosperous man.   --Barrow.
 3. Likely to or intended to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy or resentment; hateful; offensive; as, invidious distinctions.
    Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes.   --Broome.
 -- In*vid*i*ous*ly, adv. -- In*vid*i*ous*ness, n.
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