(a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.
(a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.
Example Sentences:
(1) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(2) Theodore Olson, the lead co-counsel for two of the Virginia plaintiffs, described it as a “ great day” for Virginia and said he looked forward to working with Herring to strike down the state's “odious marriage ban”.
(3) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(4) Bear-baiting was an odious entertainment, but remained legal in Britain until 1835, when it was banned by parliament.
(5) – and few Democrats had trouble understanding why such a "request" was so odious.
(6) Odious debt is a legal term usually applied to the endowments of dictators in the developing world.
(7) Surkov himself, ever ironic and self-possessed, has quipped that he is "too odious for this brave new world".
(8) They required Cameron's personal stamp of approval on an odious regime before signing.
(9) I know that the chances of getting any of this debt recognised as odious, especially by the current government, are small to say the least.
(10) And for an internet campaign, it is the answer to dealing with the odious pick-up artist and “guru” Julien Blanc .
(11) Those who still cling to the worryingly fashionable idea that the British Empire was ultimately a force for civilisation, order and the building of railways should now look away; the presence of the Cajun people in Louisiana attests to one of the more odious chapters of our colonial history.
(12) In a brief statement, Sarkozy told Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg that he condemned "with the utmost gravity this odious and unacceptable action" that had taken place, and conveyed French sympathy to the Norwegian people.
(13) Robin Williams's schoolteacher in 2009's World's Greatest Dad is plagued by his odious teen.
(14) President Barack Obama rebranded the "war on terror" innocuously as "overseas contingency operations", but, rather than retrench from the odious practices of his predecessor, Obama instead escalated.
(15) I can excoriate, deplore and refuse all dealings with odious speech or publication.
(16) US president Barack Obama called it "odious" and said it is "unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are".
(17) When the bill was first proposed, Barack Obama called it "odious".
(18) "[He's] completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters," wrote the influential reviewer about the novel, in a huge change of heart from her dissection of Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone in 2006 , which she called "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish and overwhelmingly self-absorbed".
(19) A prime minister using such irresponsible and odious language about desperate people deserves widespread criticism.
(20) If the extremist’s opinions are demonstrably odious and absurd, then what better way could there possibly be to expose them than the bright light of open, public debate?
Odium
Definition:
(n.) Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
(n.) The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It must therefore be assumed that onesided private financial support carries the odium of "private relief" for the recipients, in which case it would run contrary to the intentions of social legislation.
(2) The reality is that all organisations hate having their inner workings exposed, the more so if it incurs collective odium and risks jobs.
(3) They are therefore suffering both the odium of "higher fees" and the cost of what will be a higher level of subsidy.
(4) Moreover, it would be useful to free the diet from the odium of an annoying and unimportant supplementation to medicamentous diabetes therapy.
(5) Claims on social assistance, however, are not being deduced from preperformances (in a judical sense in regard of pensions) but are being derived from a diffuse claim on a social state incured with the odium of statutory relief for the necessitous.
(6) It’s hard to feel excited or even relieved, though, when her road to victory is so slick with the odium of Donald Trump .
(7) It simply does not stack up,” he said, pointing out the government had accepted the “public odium” of promising to abolish the schoolkids bonus before the election “and nevertheless they voted for us.” “The people of Australia will be watching very closely what we as senators do,” he warned.
(8) I had incurred the maximum of political odium for the minimum of political benefit."
(9) 'Community care' will come to deserve the odium now attached to the worst practices of former times if the tradition of asylum practised in the best of the large hospitals is not (with appropriate modification) acknowledged, properly placed in the psychiatric curriculum, and given high priority in service planning.