Sentence examples for odious with from inspiring English sources

Or if you just can't do it, make yourself odious with inappropriate gifts: Baby tube tops and chunky wedges.

Even Valentine Wannop, the spikey suffragette who is eventually to bring this Anglican saint a kind of salvation, initially finds him "as mad as he is odious", with hateful eyes "protruding at her like a lobster's"; she takes him for just another "fat golfing idiot".

Critic and essayist Stark Young wrote in The New Republic that Barrymore's films were "rotten, vulgar, empty, in bad taste, dishonest, noisome with a silly and unwholesome exhibitionism, and odious with a kind of stale and degenerate studio adolescence.

The schadenfreude sports fan, therefore, has little choice but to wish ill upon the more odious villains, with gusto.

The way out is drowning the odious voices with voices of sanity, not curbing free speech and calls for murder".

"I make no apologies for seeking to replace such an odious system with a form of Marxist socialism," Mr. Chin wrote.

The four characters toss around all sorts of odious stereotypes, with big-chested Russian waitresses, tattooed teenagers, Paul McCartney's children, Jews, Spaniards and Pakistanis all taking a beating.

It was assumed, of course, that ours was an especially wicked society, and the whole notion of producing a durable art object, such as a painting or a sculpture, that would, if successful, take its place as a valued part of an established cultural tradition, was therefore rejected as a morally odious compromise with a corrupt and moribund system.

To many, replacing an odious tyranny with something resembling a democracy seemed a good enough reason for ousting him.The last time Americans went to the polls, in 2004, 52% of them still thought that invading Iraq had been the right thing to do.

Chancellor Merkel is a well-meaning woman, who is desperately anxious not to use Germany’s undoubted economic power for political purposes and thus invite odious comparisons with the past.

I can't resist an odious comparison with November 1984 following the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.