What's the difference between invited and unbidden?

Invited


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Invite

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (3) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (4) All children enrolled in grade 2 were invited to join the study.
  • (5) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (6) They plan to continue the hour-long demonstrations daily, potentially inviting arrest under laws introduced last year that allowed some protests to be criminalised.
  • (7) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (8) Questionnaires were sent to 305 patients who during a three and a half year period had been invited to participate.
  • (9) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
  • (10) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
  • (11) "It is also very surprising that the government is advising families with disabled children, and children suffering trauma following serious abuse, to invite a stranger into their home."
  • (12) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
  • (13) They begin when authorities invite us to exclude neighbors from the community by associating them with a global threat.
  • (14) They invite the viewer to get off on the same things the killer is getting off on.
  • (15) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
  • (16) In the Commons on Monday , John Whittingdale, the culture secretary who only in February chaired the committee that concluded “No future licence fee negotiations must be conducted in the way of the 2010 settlement”, ducked the invitation to explain how exactly the same thing had just happened again.
  • (17) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
  • (18) Angela Merkel says she's very pleased to accept the invitation to Davos, at a time when global economic growth is modest.
  • (19) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
  • (20) Tales invites you to be straight or gay or a bit of both, or even a 93-year-old transsexual.

Unbidden


Definition:

  • (a.) Not bidden; not commanded.
  • (a.) Uninvited; as, unbidden guests.
  • (a.) Being without a prayer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sometimes, to manage the images that come unbidden, I force myself to picture my parents copulating in intricate patterns, summoning the image in sets of eight, for so long that looking at them makes me nauseated."
  • (2) The gestures and facial tics – both bidden and unbidden – have supplied further clues to what is in store when Ratko Mladic's defence against charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and breaches of the laws and customs of war gets under way.
  • (3) Where is the entertainer who, quite unbidden, will lead us out of the woods toward a better tomorrow - all the while bravely refusing to compromise their ineffable cool by removing their sunglasses?
  • (4) If they happen to get rich, and make their friends rich in the process, that is just the unbidden consequence of wealth being the natural reward of the righteous, in their moral universe.
  • (5) "Every time the camera cuts to Marcello Lippi looking nonplussed, the phrase 'First as tragedy, then as farce' pops unbidden into my brain," writes Scott W. "Just me?"
  • (6) But, hey, mind that you edit out the Satanic-voiced cackle that appears unbidden at the song's end.
  • (7) I thought it would be adding paraffin to a fire that had gone on too long already.” And does she blush slightly when she meets the PM now, those uncommonly luxuriant trousers floating, unbidden, into her mind?
  • (8) Just as at funerals, gazing on the coffin, unbidden thoughts about one’s own death mingle with sorrow for the dear dead friend, so it was that, at the Guardian editorial meeting’s minute of silence the next day, I doubt I was the only one imagining for a fleeting second masked gunmen bursting in with Kalashnikovs and mowing us all down – unworthy but human.
  • (9) How do you get to such a remove, expecting an unbidden fondle to be answered by anything other than complaint, a discharge of spit, the justified twisting and breaking of your fingers?
  • (10) The signs and symptoms of response to a stressful life event are expressed in two predominant phases: the intrusive state, characterized by unbidden ideas and feelings and even compulsive actions, and the denial state, characterized by emotional numbing and constriction of ideation.
  • (11) The stage directions may say benign and caring, but in repose his face turns unbidden into that default snarl.
  • (12) Patients can be taught self-hypnosis techniques that allow them to work through traumatic memories and thereby reduce spontaneous unbidden intrusive recollections.
  • (13) One female member in Pennsylvania posted that she went jogging after the election and passed a group of workmen, one of whom yelled: “We own your pussy now” – a reference to the audio tape that surfaced during the campaign of then candidate Trump boasting about grabbing women, unbidden, by the genitals.
  • (14) Sensible advice The more-or-less-coping majority, meanwhile, are far less reluctant to seek out advice and support than the media warnings of a nanny state encroaching unbidden into the nation's living rooms would imply, he insists.

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