Use "odious" in a sentence

1. The trade of a butcher is a brutal and an odious business ; but it is in most

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2. Sam could hardly refuse and drank the odious combination of carrot, cauliflower and spring onion with crushed cloves and garlic

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3. I mean not, however, by any thing which I have here said, to throw any odious imputation upon the general character of the servants of the East India company, and touch less upon that of any particular persons

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4. The laudable motive of all these regulations, is to extend our own manufactures, not by their own improvement, but by the depression of those of all our neighbours, and by putting an end, as much as possible, to the troublesome competition of such odious and disagreeable rivals

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5. was afterwards deposed from the throne of Denmark, where his conduct had rendered him as odious as in Sweden

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6. The magistrates of Berne and Zurich, who had no particular quarrel with the pope, established with great ease the reformation in their respective cantons, where just before some of the clergy had, by an imposture somewhat grosser than ordinary, rendered the whole order both odious and contemptible

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7. } Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression ; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it

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8. This odious visit rendered the tax odious

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9. This exemption, of which the object is to save private families from the odious visit and examination of the tax-gatherer, occasions the burden of those duties to fall frequently much lighter upon the rich than upon the poor

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10. Fourthly, such taxes, by subjecting at least the dealers in the taxed commodities, to the frequent visits and odious examination of the tax-gatherers, expose them sometimes, no doubt, to some degree of oppression, and always to much trouble and vexation; and though vexation, as has already been said, is not strictly speaking expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it

11. But to subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers, in the same manner as we subject the keepers of ale-houses and the brewers for public sale, would be altogether inconsistent with liberty

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12. By a union with Great Britain, the greater part of people of all ranks in Ireland would gain an equally complete deliverance from a much more oppressive aristocracy ; an aristocracy not founded, like that of Scotland, in the natural and respectable distinctions of birth and fortune, but in the most odious of all distinctions, those of religious and political prejudices; distinctions which, more than any other, animate both the insolence of the oppressors, and the hatred and indignation of the oppressed, and which commonly render the inhabitants of the same country more hostile to one another than those of different countries ever are

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13. what Liberals were hoping for! Here it comes: ―root cause‖ diatribes about the odious intolerance of Conservatives…and Republicans, that, to a news media handicapped by political blinders, will be perceived as ―Guilty by Association

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14. themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire those chariots and horsemen

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15. filled with meat; the woman being odious when she is then married; and a maid servant who is heir to her mistress

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16. I wondered how they all had managed to separate the odious policy from the young Khan and his protector

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17. 4 Whom you hated for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices;

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18. I agreed as long as it wasn’t too odious to them

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19. However, when speaking about Alaska it would be well to remember that its true personality comes out in all its strength in winter with its vicious and, for some, odious climate

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20. With an odious and glacial voice he confronted him pressing to delivering the girl or succumbing up to the death

21. 4 The lawyer answered, "He who showed mercy," that he might refrain from even speaking that odious word, Samaritan

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22. Endless waiting in an hotel room with television that openly promoted the corrupt American lifestyles with its abundant imperfections and odious domesticity -- soap operas, they called it -- did nothing to improve his patience

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23. Devil’s Bend, huh? It seemed a fairly odious name for a picnic spot

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24. We were both starving and bored with staring at his odious fizog, so we called it a morning and fortified ourselves with chicken doner and enough ayran to drown Weasel in

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25. That treason was made even more odious by the massacres of Polish prisoners committed at that time by the Soviets

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26. wizard’s apprentice, possibly the most odious man he had ever met

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27. The felicity with which the rest of the population acquiesced in it made this refusal more odious by contrast

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28. “Oh, don’t mention that odious boy!” Mrs Astley fumed, something about the Yorkshireman always seemed to rile her up

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29. The past three weeks have been absolutely odious

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30. Then I shall know you have at last had enough of me, of my moods, of my odious fits of bombastic eloquence, of my still more odious facetiousness, of my scolding of you and of my complacency about myself

31. It makes me ashamed of myself; as if I were a plutocrat, a profiteer, a bloated possessor of more than my share, a bestower of favours--of all odious things to be! Now I perceive that I never have had guests before, but only friends

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32. "If you want to get rid of the hares and foxes, you must consent to have wire-netting, which is odious, right round your garden

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33. '_Prachtvoll_, nicht?' I heard her say with an odious jollity through the singing in my ears

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34. Pity! Smug, odious word; smug, odious thing

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35. Seriously though, if an individual finds Christmas (and more importantly) the Christ inspiring this particular celebration so odious, why are they accepting gifts anyway? If this charity is being thrust upon the recipients against their will in the same spirit of “we’re doing this for your own good whether you want it or not” characterizing many of the programs directed at manipulating those targeted into accepting their status as “underprivileged”, perhaps its is Toys for Tots that needs the cliched lecture about not imposing its values on others rather than the American people receiving a lecture on the matter from Toys for Tots

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36. The romance endured for over a year and the family"s radars were twirling ever more desperately in view of this unexpected and odious development

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37. Oedipus Rex: blinded by lies, and then tearing his own eyes out rather than seeing the odious truth

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38. Who wants to face such an unpleasant truth? Who wants to shoulder such an odious responsibility; when we were not responsible for its creation in the first place? Yet every advantage, every kind of power, every tool, every gadget, every laborsaving device, every machine, every car we use, is due to the tool development of our ancestors

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39. Get the hell out and cleanse yourself of your odious past! You owe your culture nothing but the back of your hand and the heel of your boot on their asses

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40. Is it possible that you do not know that comparisons of wit with wit, valour with valour, beauty with beauty, birth with birth, are always odious and unwelcome? I, master barber, am not Neptune, the god of the waters, nor do I try to make anyone take me for an astute man, for I am not one

41. This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe

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42. If she had spoken seriously, it was very ridiculous, he thought, even odious; for he had no reason to hate the good Charles, not being what is called devoured by jealousy; and on this subject Emma had taken a great vow that he did not think in the best of taste

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43. to a woman rendered odious by habitual intoxication; but who would expect him,

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44. little maister and his staunch supporter, that odious old man!

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45. a way peculiar to him, and by his odious presence, confirmed me in all

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46. the scene, and my odious persecutor still intent of pushing his brutal

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47. The cruel and interested care taken to recover me, saved an odious

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48. "Pray," said I, as the two odious casts with the twitchy leer upon them caught

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49. "The better reason for my not being conversant with the slang of the bank, which is here dinning in my ears from morning to night; that noise of jingling crowns, which are constantly being counted and re-counted, is odious to me

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50. The baroness had been tolerably composed until the name of Villefort had been pronounced; but then she became pale, and, rising, as if touched by a spring, she stretched out her hands as though conjuring an apparition; she then took two or three steps towards her husband, as though to tear the secret from him, of which he was ignorant, or which he withheld from some odious calculation,—odious, as all his calculations were

51. For who is there who anything of some significance has apprehended but is conscious that that exterior splendour may be the surface of a downwardtending lutulent reality or on the contrary anyone so is there unilluminated as not to perceive that as no nature's boon can contend against the bounty of increase so it behoves every most just citizen to become 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?

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52. "I am satisfied, madame, that he did what I have told you; besides, that is not much more odious than that a Frenchman by adoption should pass over to the English; that a Spaniard by birth should have fought against the Spaniards; that a stipendiary of Ali should have betrayed and murdered Ali

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53. His gestures, his gait, his grizzled beard, his slightest and most indifferent acts, the very fashion of his garments, were odious in the clergyman's sight; a token implicitly to be relied on, of a deeper antipathy in the breast of the latter than he was willing to acknowledge to himself

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54. Woodley was perfectly odious, but that Mr

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55. He made odious love to me, boasted of his wealth, said that if I married him I would have the finest diamonds in London, and finally, when I would have nothing to do with him, he seized me in his arms one day after dinner—he was hideously strong—and he swore that he would not let me go until I had kissed him

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56. Carruthers, but it is the reappearance of that odious man, Mr

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57. Mine was, that I could not conceive how it was possible for mankind to run into a taste, not only universally odious, but absurd, and impossible to gratify; since, according to the notions and experience I had of things, it was not in nature to force such immense disproportions

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58. As he thus stood in a side view to me, but fronting his companion, who, presently unmasking his battery, produced an engine that certainly deserved to be put to a better use, and very fit to confirm me in my disbelief of the possibility of things; being pushed to odious extremities, which I had built on the disproportion of parts; but this disbelief I was now cured of, as by my consent all young men should likewise be, that their innocence may not be betrayed into such snares, for want of knowing the extent of their danger: for nothing is more certain than that ignorance of advice is by no means a guard against it

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59. First of all, the word had no sense for cultured minds, to whom the narrowness of every belief is odious; and secondly, in connection with the everlasting troubles of this unhappy country it was hopelessly besmirched; it had been the cry of dark barbarism, the cloak of lawlessness, of crimes, of rapacity, of simple thieving

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60. To lie, to deceive, to circumvent even the basest of mankind was odious to him

61. It was odious to him by training, instinct, and tradition

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62. Of all the people in the world to turn up here, this terrible person who had witnessed that scene with Ashley which still gave her nightmares; this odious wretch said, and with good cause, that she was not a lady

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63. Sometimes he was odious

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64. In fact, most of the time he was odious

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65. Were his feelings really hurt? Did he really care about her? Had he been on the verge of a odious proposal as he had made twice before? If he really cared about her, perhaps she proposal when he saw her palms? Or had he only been leading up to another such

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66. He was bad enough when he was a speculator during the war and making money out of our hunger but now that he is hand in glove with the Carpetbaggers and Scallawags and a friend—actually a friend of that odious wretch, Governor Bullock-Call, indeed!”

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67. And to me it is one of the most odious things

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68. There was no odious cupidity in Mr

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69. Dorothea's outpouring of her notions about money, in the darkness of the night, had done nothing but bring a mixture of more odious foreboding into her husband's mind

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70. But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves

71. And surely these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that, and to wait, if you would make proper representations to them

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72. She held it to be very odious in him that he did not think the painful propositions he had had to make to her were enough, without showing so unpleasant a temper

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73. Raffles, recovering quickly, returning to the free use of his odious powers—how could Bulstrode wish for that? Raffles dead was the image that brought release, and indirectly he prayed for that way of release, beseeching that, if it were possible, the rest of his days here below might be freed from the threat of an ignominy which would break him utterly as an instrument of God's service

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74. Even if the money had been given merely to make him hold his tongue about the scandal of Bulstrode's earlier life, the fact threw an odious light on Lydgate, who had long been sneered at as making himself subservient to the banker for the sake of working himself into predominance, and discrediting the elder members of his profession

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75. Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties

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76. A very few of them, in fact, passing, in constant sight of my pupils, without a fresh incident, sufficed to give to grievous fancies and even to odious memories a kind of brush of the sponge

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77. ” And, i’faith, ’twas true that she had mother’d me and spar’d my Life—both by calling in the Midwife, unbeknownst to me, and by chasing out the odious Accoucheur

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78. Comparisons may or may not be odious, but they hold a somewhat deceptive fascination for the analyst

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79. African countries have suffered from endemic corruption and civil war, and some African leaders have been odious

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80. I’d rather sit with Hindley, and hear his awful talk, than with “t’ little maister” and his staunch supporter, that odious old man! When Heathcliff is in, I’m often obliged to seek the kitchen and their society, or starve among the damp uninhabited chambers; when he is not, as was the case this week, I establish a table and chair at one corner of the house fire, and never mind how Mr

81. He asked himself severely what he had meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the true one—to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him—to shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine

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82. The swords, as we have just remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and was only a sabre

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83. For if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, the miserable; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great?

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84. The very sight of this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre was far away

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85. Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word "villain," the female Thenardier sprang from the bed, Thenardier grasped his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands

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