But they are really a collection of regional leaders, and the BJP is unsure of its ideology, having toned down its earlier, odious, form of Hindu nationalism but also muddied its old pro-market stance.
Washington, Jefferson, John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and many other brave and good men have worn those appellations, and I hate to see them now worn by wretches who, instead of being rebels against slavery, are actually rebelling against the principles of human liberty and progress, for the hell-black purpose of establishing slavery in its most odious form".
The law dismantled the edifice of "separate but equal" in its most odious form.
Do not believe the Internet dictionaries that treat the verb as an acronym for Packet Internet Groper, a Unix utility that accomplishes the above test but sounds to me like an odious new form of sexual harassment.
"I make no apologies for seeking to replace such an odious system with a form of Marxist socialism," Mr. Chin wrote.
And he may well try to form sometimes odious partnerships, but for the moment, Whac-a-Mole is indeed what Obama's been doing, whether nabbing terrorists in Libya or this week's attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas.
(The latter is, of course, more odious).
And, of course, there is an odious archenemy, Ivan.
Dr. Berman says it's an art form to acquire a taste for what is odious to you.
The principal human feelings, according to Bharata, are delight, laughter, sorrow, anger, fear, disgust, heroism, and astonishment, all of which may be recast in contemplative form as the various rasas: erotic, comic, pathetic, furious, terrible, odious, marvellous, and quietistic.
Though the trials officially ended in 1693, the odious assumptions that permitted them still persist today, manifested in various forms of sexism, xenophobia and racism.
