odious

• This made her unpopular; her attempts to bring justice into Scottish courts were odious, and she would not increase the odium by persecuting the Protestants. —  John Knox and the Reformation
• That such mystifications are odious, are shameful, are almost too degrading a price to pay for the gains of such a work, we may all readily enough admit. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
• If after having, from a sense of duty, expatiated upon anarchical, odious, and sanguinary scenes, the historian of our civil discords has the good fortune to meet on his progress with an incident that gratifies the mind, raises the soul, and fills the heart with pleasing emotions, he stops there, Gentlemen, as the African traveller halts in an oasis! —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• “It has made me quiver with indignation; so odious are the principles it contains, so full is it of blackness and duplicity. —  Rousseau
• How odious is the abandonment of passion, such as this, unshaded by pride or delicacy, unhallowed by religion, — a selfish craving only; every source of enjoyment stifled to cherish this burning thirst. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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