The worst of it all was that Mr. Marraville's failure to expire on the operating table forever deprived them of the privilege of saying, invidiously, that young Doctor Thorpe had been called in as the last resort.
"From the Housetops"
George Barr McCutcheon
Probably nine-tenths of the gushing letters of indiscreet confession are written after nine or ten o'clock in the evening, and sent off before day returns to leer invidiously upon them.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
I don't say that invidiously; it 's your disposition, and you can't help it.
"Roderick Hudson"
Henry James