Significados de invidious task en inglés

But I own I was in no hurry to take over the invidious task.

This is always an unwelcome and invidious task.

This invidious task fell upon his old friend Addison, now Secretary of State for the Southern Department.

It's an invidious task to rule over the unwilling, even when one rules with justice and wisdom.

But, although this was generally the case, there wanted not some to exercise the invidious task of criticism, or rather of malevolent detraction.

'It is an invidious task to have to listen to complaints against the revered ministers of the Church.