Example sentences for: odious

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

  • 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.

  • One thing that bugs me the most about politicians, who are truly an odious lot, is their namby-pamby position on pot.

  • Of course, there are subtle warnings against prejudice and snobbery (as embodied by the odious Malfoy clan), and affirmations of the virtues of honesty and friendship.

  • In a few pages, Wolfe lets us know that Vietnamese immigrants live packed into tiny apartments and take odious jobs in chicken processing plants that white and black Atlantans both spurn.

  • 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.


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