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Meanings of invidious in English
Containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice.
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Examples for "abusive"
Examples for "abusive"
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Four of those cases involved domestic violence victims fleeing their abusive partners.
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Others also recommend having a code word to signal an abusive situation.
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She described daily abusive text messages, and threatening and frightening phone calls.
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Schools were closed, and children were sometimes quarantined with abusive family members.
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Violent and abusive language, or language which describes the reality of abortion?
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We present clear examples of the protective and injurious nature of NO.
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Conclusions: More rational psychopharmacological treatments for severe self-injurious behaviour may become available.
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Yes; the injudicious use of a blower is injurious to any boiler.
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The impossibility of forming intimacies calculated to be injurious in after life.
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This is depressing to the defender and is injurious to his morale.
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There'd been nothing derogatory or recent under either personal or business files.
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Asked if that was not derogatory language, he said it was not.
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There is nothing derogatory to her in what you say-quite the reverse.
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No truth can be derogatory to the presumed fountain of all truth.
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The flock, with shrill, derogatory remarks, flew in an airline straight away.
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It is defamatory and I will leave it at that, he said.
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Lawyers for Sinn Féin contended that neither statement contained any defamatory content.
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The movie contains many false and defamatory statements and scenes about me.
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I mean, it's pretty defamatory stuff, Mr McGowan told reporters on Wednesday.
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His attorney Marty Singer has dismissed the allegations as discredited and defamatory.
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The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
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He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
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I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
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Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
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But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
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Comments favorable and unfavorable, some of them libelous, appeared in print.
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It isn't libelous if it's done as a joke without malice.
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In other locales, perfectly accurate statements can be considered libelous.
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Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
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I wonder the curse of Gomorrah does not descend on this gossiping, libelous community.
Usage of invidious in English
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Which puts the new Octavia Scout in somewhat of an invidious position.
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His only approach to invidious comment was in regard to the terrapin.
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There can be no invidious rivalry between the dead and the living.
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The arrival of a visitor put an end to the invidious comparison.
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They diffused the most invidious reports against Oxford and secretary St. John.
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He relieved the sheriff, however, of his more onerous and invidious duties.
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Shame is recognised by psychologists to be the most invidious social emotion.
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Others react quite differently to the greater ego threat of invidious social comparisons.
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The possession of wealth confers honour; it is an invidious distinction.
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It should be banned, just like other forms of invidious discrimination.
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At the same time, he is placed in an invidious position.
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On occasion, therefore, the mobile phone has become an invidious part of life.
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The idea is too gross and too invidious to be entertained.
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What discrimination is, is a subtle and invidious combination of acceptance and rejection.
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You generally want to avoid the two pitfalls of pastiche and invidious comparison.
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Their position is invidious, awful, unjust, but they are not just passive victims.
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