odious

in a sentence

The poll tax was designed as a particularly odious violation of civil rights.

Tally's meals ranged from decent to odious.  (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in the plump fireproof slickers.  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

Odious stuck-up prig.  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Trader, 1952

He grinned odiously, sweat sprinkling his forehead.†  (source) Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush, 2009

The whisper that my master was my father, may or may not be true; and, true or false, it is of but little consequence to my purpose whilst the fact remains, in all its glaring odiousness, that slaveholders have ordained, and by law established, that the children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers; and this is done too obviously to administer to their own lusts, and make a gratification of their wicked desires profitable as well as pleasurable;  (source) Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845

He was ashamed of his jealousy.... The odious sentiment kept on returning.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

The brown people of this island seem to me odiously inquisitive and bothery-idiotic.†  (source) Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, 1982

The image left him, but the odiousness never did.†  (source) Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, 1977

And what made it even more odious was the personality of the prisoner, an inhuman monster wholly without a moral sense.  (source) Albert Camus, The Stranger, 1942

But he had gone too far and saw no other way out of the ridiculous position than to behave odiously.†  (source) Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera, 1911

He said, "the Yahoos were known to hate one another, more than they did any different species of animals; and the reason usually assigned was, the odiousness of their own shapes, which all could see in the rest, but not in themselves.†  (source) Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 1726

She came to know what heavy housework meant and the odious cares of the kitchen.  (source) Guy de Maupassant, The Diamond Necklace, 1884