non-invidious

Even so I accept there's an argument for retaliatory, or defensive, discrimination being non-invidious.

Discourse.net: Sotomayor is Lucky in Her Enemies 2009

What changed between Plessy and Brown is not that we suddenly realized the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to bar non-invidious classifications.

Balkinization 2007

The universalist, non-invidious variant introduces enormous psychological and political complications.

Nationalism Miscevic, Nenad 2005

This tension might make the humane, non-invidious position psychologically unstable and difficult to uphold in situations of conflict and crisis.

Nationalism Miscevic, Nenad 2005

It should therefore be prevented, either by a continuation of the "gentlemen's agreement" now in force between the United States and Japan, and by similar agreements with other nations, or by some such non-invidious measure as that proposed by Dr. Gulick.

Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

Some deduction is to be made from the economic value of this class of non-invidious enterprise, on account of the intrusion of the devotional interest.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

The latter-day leisure-class festivities and entertainments may continue in some slight degree to serve the religious need and in a higher degree the needs of recreation and conviviality, but they also serve an invidious purpose; and they serve it none the less effectually for having a colorable non-invidious ground in these more avowable motives.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

So far as concerns this portion of the population, the educative and selective action of the industrial process with which they are immediately in contact acts to adapt their habits of thought to the non-invidious purposes of the collective life.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

But in the modern scheme of life canons of conduct based on pecuniary or invidious merit stand in the way of a free exercise of these impulses; and the dominant presence of these canons of conduct goes far to divert such efforts as are made on the basis of the non-invidious interest to the service of that invidious interest on which the pecuniary culture rests.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

It may even be that the enterprise owes its honorific virtue, as a means of enhancing the donor's good repute, to the imputed presence of this non-invidious motive; but that does not hinder the invidious interest from guiding the expenditure.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899