Significados de invidious comparison em inglês

The arrival of a visitor put an end to the invidious comparison.

You generally want to avoid the two pitfalls of pastiche and invidious comparison.

It will then be held up in invidious comparison to Obama's glittering best efforts.

An invidious comparison is a process of valuation of persons in respect of worth.

The propitiatory formulas most in vogue are still such as carry or imply an invidious comparison.

And all the while Polly had been following the invidious comparison that lurked behind his words.

The invidious comparison now becomes primarily a comparison of the owner with the other members of the group.

It wasn't however, I hasten to add, that my case, in spite of this invidious comparison, wasn't ambiguous enough.

Some of Dryden's libellers draw an invidious comparison betwixt his own private life and this satire; and exhort him to

But I am ashamed of those who erect these things into an invidious comparison, and with a supercilious, reproachful spirit.

Its consumption is therefore not honorific, since it does not serve the purpose of a favorable invidious comparison with other consumers.

None but dead monarchs are so much as mentioned by them, and those only to insult the living by an invidious comparison.

Presently number two comes along, and, to secure himself from invidious comparison, piles his house half a story higher than number one.

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.

He found it strange that people were making comparisons with the Garvaghy Road and what might happen in Dublin - it was an invidious comparison.

I wouldn't want to make any invidious comparisons with Harvard.