In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze 'so as to avoid making an invidious distinction'.

Not everybody who interprets personal experiences through the prism of the English language is comfortable with this invidious distinction.

This was the invidious distinction between them and the Sour-doughs, who, forsooth, made their bread from sour-dough because they had no baking-powder.

Francis was suspicious of learning and education because he feared that they created invidious distinctions between those who were spiritually equal.

On the American highway a new invidious distinction was born.

Henry David Thoreau once defined weeding as the business of "making invidious distinctions with the hoe."

I would rather we left the system without invidious distinctions between rich and poor.

It is best to make it so, to prevent invidious distinctions.

But the essence of victim-impact statements is precisely to create such invidious distinctions among victims.

With no women to impress, males feel less of a need to create invidious distinctions by, for instance, paying themselves large bonuses.