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Meanings of invidious comparison in anglès

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Usage of invidious comparison in anglès
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The arrival of a visitor put an end to the invidious comparison.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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You generally want to avoid the two pitfalls of pastiche and invidious comparison.
Radio NZ
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It will then be held up in invidious comparison to Obama's glittering best efforts.
Reuters
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An invidious comparison is a process of valuation of persons in respect of worth.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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The propitiatory formulas most in vogue are still such as carry or imply an invidious comparison.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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And all the while Polly had been following the invidious comparison that lurked behind his words.
The Turtles of Tasman
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The invidious comparison now becomes primarily a comparison of the owner with the other members of the group.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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It wasn't however, I hasten to add, that my case, in spite of this invidious comparison, wasn't ambiguous enough.
Embarrassments
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Some of Dryden's libellers draw an invidious comparison betwixt his own private life and this satire; and exhort him to
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volume...
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But I am ashamed of those who erect these things into an invidious comparison, and with a supercilious, reproachful spirit.
The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
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Its consumption is therefore not honorific, since it does not serve the purpose of a favorable invidious comparison with other consumers.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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None but dead monarchs are so much as mentioned by them, and those only to insult the living by an invidious comparison.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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Presently number two comes along, and, to secure himself from invidious comparison, piles his house half a story higher than number one.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
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The motive is emulation-thestimulus of an invidious comparison which prompts us to outdo those with whom we are in the habit of classing ourselves.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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He found it strange that people were making comparisons with the Garvaghy Road and what might happen in Dublin - it was an invidious comparison.
The Irish Times
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I wouldn't want to make any invidious comparisons with Harvard.
Anthill: a novel
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