invidious

Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment.

Offensive and unfair.

Envious.

Envious; causing or arising from envy.

Enviable; desirable.

Prompted by or expressing or adapted to excite envious dislike or ill will; offensively or unfairly discriminating: as, invidious distinctions or comparisons.

Hence Hateful; odious; detestable.

Synonyms Invidious, Offensive. Invidious, having lost its subjective sense of envious, now means producing or likely to produce ill feeling because bringing persons or their belongings into contrast with others in an unjust or mortifying way: as, an invidious comparison or distinction. The ill feeling thus produced would be not envy, but resentment, on account of wounded pride. Offensive is a general word, covering invidious and all other words characterizing that which gives offense.

Envious; malignant.

Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable.