Example sentences for: odious

How can you use “odious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (This, of course, raises First Amendment questions about odious speech, but that's another question.)

  • I fear that too many people will throw up their hands in exasperation at Updike's way of appealing for love by presenting his heroes as ever more odious or cantankerous, and too many other people will celebrate the book mostly for its secondary virtues--its astronomical wonders sailing through the futuristic sky, the human-chomping metal animals, a few political jokes.

  • We changed back again when the abominable truth was discovered that the word had its own legitimate Latin ancestor, abominosus meaning away from the omens, or hateful and odious.

  • Surely a single John Rocker response is sufficient impetus to point out that Major League Baseball--the organization, not the actual players--is as odious and craven a pack of millionaires never sued by Patricia Duff.

  • Johnson: "Certainly he did; but we must always remember that he made it for Scotchmen, and comparisons are odious, Mr. S, but God made hell."


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