Odious

Examples

• I would never have treated Miss Crawley's faithful friends as that odious designing Mrs. Bute has done. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If,' said Mr. Stiggins--'if there is any one of them less odious than another, it is the liquor called rum. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Lord Mansfield declared that slavery was a condition unknown to English law, an odious condition, and Somersett walked out of the court a free man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And surely these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that, and to wait, if you would make proper representations to them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Now this odious, artful rogue of a Major was thinking in his own mind that he was sure of his case. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You stupid dear, why do you say such odious things to me? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended; and 'setting one's cap at a man,' or 'making a conquest,' are the most odious of all. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Not of those odious men and women, said she: such people should be steerage passengers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Woodley seemed to me to be a most odious person. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The long-backed odious creature will call here to-morrow, answered Julia. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I saw him--I wept--I cried--I fell at his odious knees. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I wish we had never seen those odious purse-proud Osbornes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• These delays and disappointments are quite odious. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Raffles, recovering quickly, returning to the free use of his odious powers--how could Bulstrode wish for that? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The very thought of them is odious and low. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Between such a woman and her brother-in-law, the odious Baronet at the Hall, it is manifest that there could be very little in common. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The only place where she is not likely to meet those odious Rawdons is at church, and that won't amuse her, Mrs. Bute justly felt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He added (with the odious talkativeness of servants), that her name was Fanny. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was an odious face--crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But the odious things were there, and remained with her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• What I wished to say was that Mr. Woodley was perfectly odious, but that Mr. Carruthers, who was a much older man, was more agreeable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Dobbin, who was thus vigorously besieged, was in the meanwhile in a state of the most odious tranquillity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I am a martyr to duty and to your odious unclerical habit of hunting, Bute. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The liquor appeared to give the odious rebel courage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Could one never do the simplest, the most harmless thing, without subjecting one's self to some odious conjecture? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Odious insinuations both! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The contrast of her manners and appearance with those of the heiress, made the idea of a union with the latter appear doubly ludicrous and odious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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