Both Uses of
odious
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …accomplished if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs to that thither of profundity that that one was audacious excessively who would have the hardihood to rise affirming that no more odious offence can for anyone be than to oblivious neglect to consign that evangel simultaneously command and promise which on all mortals with prophecy of abundance or with diminution's menace that exalted of reiteratedly procreating function…†
Chpt 14 *
- THE RECORDER: I will put an end to this white slave traffic and rid Dublin of this odious pest.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(odious) extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate