| 释义 |
invidiously, adv.|ɪnˈvɪdɪəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an invidious manner (in various senses of the adj.).
1665Glanvill Def. Vain Dogm. 84 That [he] dealt so invidiously with the philosophers. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Blackmore Wks. III. 186 Blackmore..was in time neglected as a physician; his practice, which was once invidiously great, forsook him. 1789P. Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 19 Vitruvius, of whom he appears to have been a little invidiously emulous. 1841Trench Parables, Prodigal Son (1860) 415 Then he invidiously compares the father's conduct to his brother. |