Both Uses of
odious
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- the exhortator and admonisher of his semblables and to tremble lest what had in the past been by the nation excellently commenced might be in the future not with similar excellence 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 ever irrevocably enjoined?†
Chpt 14 *odious = extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- THE RECORDER: I will put an end to this white slave traffic and rid Dublin of this odious pest.†
Chpt 15