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English
Etymology
From invidious + -ly.
Adverb
invidiously (comparative more invidiously, superlative most invidiously)
- In an invidious manner.
1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., chapter XIII, in Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC; republished as Roderick Hudson (EBook #176), U.S.A.: Project Gutenberg, 18 September 2016:You ask too much, for a man who himself has no occasion to play the hero. I don't say that invidiously; it's your disposition, and you can’t help it.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , →OCLC:Tess gazed desperately at the pile of furniture. The cold sunlight of this spring evening peered invidiously upon the crocks and kettles, upon the bunches of dried herbs shivering in the breeze, upon the brass handles of the dresser, upon the wicker-cradle they had all been rocked in, […]
2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22:Which country are we to toast in an impassioned and half-informed way? Which country are we to compare invidiously with our own?
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