Invidious means inviting or deserving criticism, censure, or disfavor; causing shame or embarrassment. It can also refer to something that is difficult to avoid or escape from.
We expect most lawyers are sympathetic with the general goals of ensuring equal access to justice and eliminating racial and other forms of invidious discrimination from the legal profession. (noforcedspeech.ca)
When a judge determines that an organization to which the judge belongs engages in invidious discrimination that would preclude membership under Canon 2C or under Canons 2 and 2A, the judge is permitted, in lieu of resigning, to make immediate and continuous efforts to have the organization discontinue its invidiously discriminatory practices. (uscourts.gov)
The idea that she was making invidious comparisons between her work and Talmon's is ludicrous on the face of it. (firstthings.com)