Sentence examples for odious actions from inspiring English sources

The phrase "odious actions" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe actions that are extremely unpleasant or repulsive. Example: "The committee condemned the odious actions of the corrupt officials who exploited their positions for personal gain."

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No one is suggesting that Mr Cameron should sound a timid, defeatist note when it comes to Isis and its odious actions.

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(In fact Newton rejects this possibility in De Gravitatione (1962) on the grounds that it would involve an odious action at a distance; an ironic position given his theory of universal gravity).

Nor should there be, even though I find their views and actions odious.

That may explain some of his intemperate actions and odious remarks.

United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenny tweeted out that their actions were "odious and have no place in our Alberta.

UC Irvine Law Professor Richard Hasen called the decision "courageous and sensible," even though it is "letting off the hook someone whose actions were odious".

An ugly object or vicious action feels odious, disagreeable, and undesirable.

On behalf of monks and nuns inside Myanmar, which we still call Burma, I applaud Nicholas D. Kristof's call for new actions against the "odious" regime ruling our country.

After doing so, we left for good feeling that despite not being part of the US war effort, we were in a place of man-made destruction caused in no small part by US actions.... however odious the Iraqi regime we deposed was to its people.

When I was unwillingly part of a union, I had to choose between being a "scab" during job actions and work slowdowns which were odious to me and totally against my work ethic, or getting threats and pressure from union representatives.

African American members felt validated by its high profile organizing around affirmative action, affordable housing, police brutality, South African apartheid and the odious 1978 Briggs Initiative, which would have denied gays and lesbians the right to teach in California public schools.

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