Sentence examples for odious one from inspiring English sources

The strategy includes casting 'negative ballots', that is, holding one's nose and voting for a distasteful candidate to block a far more odious one.

It is neither in his erudition nor is it in his ability to play the crowd, and although comparisons are always odious, one could argue that Benedict XVI and John Paul II, respectively, were more talented than him in those areas.

Five years on from Andijan, which has seemingly publicy disappeared into memory for America's diplomatic corps in Uzbekistan, the U.S. is fast at work restoring ties with the Karimov regime that Western critics and local activists oft describe as an entirely odious one in terms of human rights.

Two were particularly odious: one guaranteed the United States the right to intervene at will in Cuban affairs; the other provided for the sale or lease of naval stations.

Waugh rationalized his decision to leave Oxford before graduating (he most likely would have been kicked out anyway) with a kind of hubris that could only come from a 21-year-old whose first book was about to be published: he "foresaw that the role of a published novelist among the other undergraduates would be an odious one, requiring endless displays of modesty and self-effacement".

The National Gallery in London owns a 15th-century painting of this odious individual, one of three panels by Carlo Crivelli.

That is the tragedy of the Weiner scandal, that it will be that much easier now for the Republicans to roll forward with a truly odious agenda, one that will be damaging for the country.

Just as the camera zoomed in on one particularly odious twerp wearing a hat with barbells on it, I turned to my wife and said: "No good will come of this, you know".

But Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia, speaking in Moscow, criticized the resolution as "odious and one-sided," and Russia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Alexei Borodavkin, told the council that this "dangerous and hypocritical" resolution was "untimely, counterproductive and likely to complicate the launch of the peace process in Syria".

An odious assault on judicial review weakened one of the few serious brakes on executive power that has slowly evolved in Britain's formless constitution.

"The debate is a thinly veiled opportunity to allow the dreadfully transphobic Julie Bindel a platform for her odious views," posted one blogger.