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Перевод: invidious

[прилагательное]
возмутительный; ненавистный; вызывающий враждебное чувство; оскорбляющий несправедливостью; завидный

Тезаурус:

1. The role of black teachers in apartheid education is even more invidious.
2. When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s, the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment.
3. Faced with such demand and having only limited powers and minimal resources the service was quickly forced on the defensive, making invidious distinctions between those who were amenable to (deserving of) help and those who were not.
4. Though this problem is not as widespread or invidious as in South Africa, it still affects a significant number of children.
5. Far more invidious, as we now know, is the lead in air that comes mainly from petrol.
6. Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent, threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
7. Marshall is in an invidious position trying to balance the resoluteness of The Wedding Present and his bosses' basic desire to sell as many records as possible.
8. It is almost invidious to single out specific examples of success.
9. Others of varying eminence in the scientific community win eulogies such as "bleeding heart liberals"; "very definitely out"; "invidious environmental extremists"; or simply "get him out".
10. Paul Kammerer had unwittingly fallen into an invidious trap, partly as a result of the circumstances of his times and partly as a consequence of the vicious narrow-mindedness that thinkers of every age and generation are prone to in defence of their personal commitment to particular theories.
11. It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs, mostly on the right, whose concern over a fresh wave of "large-scale immigration" hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman, the shadow Foreign Secretary, who called the plan "inherently unworkable, invidious and divisive", and demanded details on how it would work.
12. I believe such a system to be inherently unworkable, invidious and divisive," said Mr Kaufman.
13. So, if you have to cope with recrimination, invidious comparisons and abuse from your son or daughter, take the long view and remain solid and safe; it may be painful for you, but it will pay off in the longer term.