Sample Sentences for
odious
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    The poll tax was designed as a particularly odious violation of civil rights.
    odious = extremely dislikable
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    Tally's meals ranged from decent to odious.  (source)
    odious = extremely unpleasant
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    Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in the plump fireproof slickers.  (source)
    odious = disgusting
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    He was ashamed of his jealousy.... The odious sentiment kept on returning.  (source)
    odious = extremely unpleasant and dislikable
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    The brown people of this island seem to me odiously inquisitive and bothery-idiotic.†  (source)
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    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)
    odiousness = the quality of being extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The sight of Miss Lucas was odious to her.  (source)
    odious = disgusting
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    He grinned odiously, sweat sprinkling his forehead.†  (source)
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    The image left him, but the odiousness never did.†  (source)
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    "It should be Christmas Day, I am sure," said she, "on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge."  (source)
    odious = extremely unpleasant and dislikable
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    But he had gone too far and saw no other way out of the ridiculous position than to behave odiously.†  (source)
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    Odious stuck-up prig.  (source)
    Odious = extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
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    Her phrases, so bald and few, constantly repeated, showed the emptiness of her mind; he recalled her vulgar little laugh at the jokes of the musical comedy; and he remembered the little finger carefully extended when she held her glass to her mouth; her manners like her conversation, were odiously genteel.†  (source)
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