The word "odium" is an acceptable and usable word in written English.
It is a noun which most commonly means strong dislike, hatred, or contempt, as evinced through a person's behavior. Example sentence: Her words were filled with odium and malice.
It would also make a symbolic point, marking the end of the period in which a tacit goal of the EU was the containment of Germany.An unloved documentYet there is a much longer list of countries that are indifferent or uneasy about the constitution but do not want to incur the odium that would go with blocking it.
The loser endures the odium of disappointed supporters and power-hungry rivals.But, if you shift the focus from Gore and Bush to their respective parties, the paradox becomes more powerful.
"How many good potential servants have become poor stenographers because of the odium of the name 'Bridget'?" she asked rhetorically.
They may even have transferred to their own account some of the odium which "uncommitted" countries were attaching to the Soviet Union for its action in Hungary.A week ago Mr Nehru, questioned about Eastern Europe, said: "It is not for us to interfere in any way, even by expressing an opinion".
This results from its tendency to pursue what acerbic geostrategists might call a "highly personal foreign-leaders odium policy", or HIPE-FLOP in its abbreviation.The problem starts with the need to get public support for foreign policy.
Reimposing central control at a time when bills are rising to pay for new power stations and other infrastructure risks attracting the odium of a hard-pressed public.Yet blackouts at home and embarrassment abroad are even worse, and so government pronouncements have been growing increasingly prescriptive.
The odium theologorum ("bitterness of the theologians") of which Melanchthon once complained so plaintively has been notorious.
Ha-Levi was aware of the odium attached to the doctrine of the superiority of one particular nation; he held, however, that this teaching alone explains God's dealings with humanity, which, like many other things, reason is unable to grasp.
Wellington twice reached the zenith of fame with a period of unexampled odium intervening.
It is perhaps sad, in retrospect, that the odium of proving it should rest on Julian, who with a little less venom and more tact might have been remembered for his many virtues rather than for his two fatal blunders.
