Sentence examples for odious that from inspiring English sources

One is that much of its debt is "odious"; that is, it was accrued under military dictators.

Some of its original provisions, including the fugitive slave clause, are so odious that is difficult to believe that any religious person could have agreed to them.

"There has been a frenzy to come up with something — anything, no matter how far-fetched or odious — that will block a vote on my nomination," Kavanaugh will tell the committee.

Helen is so odious that the fun is in hating her.

The crime was so odious that it became a nationwide obsession.

Some of the responses to its posting on General Mills"s YouTube channel were so odious that General Mills actually disabled the comments.

They found the prospect of being ruled by the Turks less odious than that of being indebted to the Latins.

Mr. Romney has pledged that, on his first day in the White House, he would reinstate the "global gag rule," the odious restriction that has been used to deny federal money for family-planning work abroad to any organization that provided information, advice, referrals or services for legal abortion or supported the legalization of abortion, even using its own money.

In Lower Manhattan, cordoned off with sawhorses for blocks around the smoldering World Trade Center, the odious scent that persisted for months and wafted through the city.

Their most salient traits render Pialat's films not merely unlovable but almost odious — and that's their distinctive and inimitable virtue.

It was the accession, in 1685, of the odious James II that began Defoe's astonishing (and until now, largely unsung) contribution to English history.