WordWealth: invidious

in·vid·i·ous , adj.

The other thing is as difficult to quantify journalistically as it is important to note: fanatical adherence to one's position. A heterosexual Los Angeles AIDS doctor with whom I spoke has done studies clearly showing that partner-notification programs identify more infected people and bring them into treatment earlier (when their prognosis is better). Yet he works against the constant opposition of AIDS and gay activists. "When they hear the words 'partner notification' they just freak out and come after you," he told me. "But this is what the studies show." After nearly two years of professional interaction with numerous exceptionalists, I am still astounded at the dogmatism of many of them. There is a constant, suspicious whiff of fanaticism present in the repetition of unverifiable hypotheses, apocalyptic scenarios, and imputations of invidious motive.—— Chandler Burr; AIDS Roundtable: Privacry vs Plublich Health; The Atlantic; June 1997
 

But to the human hordes of Amorites -- Semitic nomads wandering the mountains and deserts just beyond the pale of Sumer -- the tiered and clustered cities, strung out along the green banks of the meandering Euphrates like a giant's necklace of polished stone, seemed shining things, each surmounted by a wondrous temple and ziggurat dedicated to the city's god-protector, each city noted for some specialty -- all invidious reminders of what the nomads did not possess. —— Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews

In his experience people were seldom happier for having learned what they were missing, and all Europe had done for his wife was encourage her natural inclination toward bitter and invidious comparison. —— Richard Russo, Empire Falls

For five decades, Indian liberals, and some from Europe and America, have been shaming the Western world with its commercialism, making invidious comparisons with Indian spirituality. —— Leland Hazard; Strong Medicine for India; December 1965

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