invidious

Example Sentences

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“How is this an invidious racial classification rather than a political classification?” he asked.

From New York Times

Nicholas Serota, the council’s chairman, said in a news conference that funding for London-based organizations had been reallocated to those in poorer parts of Britain, a process that involved “some invidious choices.”

From New York Times

“Historians have long recognized that interracial marriage, sex and procreation evoke some of the most invidious forms of prejudice and violence.”

From New York Times

In doing so, the author deliberately invokes the history of invidious trans predator stereotypes, from Norman Bates in “Psycho” to Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs.”

From Los Angeles Times

The brief criticizes not only affirmative action, but diversity itself, stating, “Indeed, the very justifications for ‘diversity’ require invidious racial stereotyping.”

From New York Times