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Recent Examples of odious However, taking isolated and odious episodes like this and using them as a pretext to impose punitive legislative and regulatory punishments on the rest of the private-investment community is shortsighted and harmful to people’s health. Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025 And there can’t be a more odious public servant than one who violates the sacred public trust. Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025 When the bill hit the floor of the House of Delegates on Saturday, Republicans offered 11 amendments to try to make this travesty a little less odious. Haven Shoemaker, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2025 There’s a saying in Spain that comparisons are odious, and Real Madrid and Barcelona’s are becoming more so every week. Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for odious
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Adjective
  • Danny DeVito, who plays the hilarious and disgusting Frank Reynolds on Always Sunny, used to be married to a fellow comedy legend, Rhea Perlman.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 9 July 2025
  • July 7, 2025 Homa included another message from a fan that is far too disgusting to even reiterate.
    Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Confirmation bias rears its ugly head, and the person convinces themselves that AI sentience is at hand.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • And by sharing the ugly parts, she's made golf feel more human.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
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  • However, the idea that Gunn was going to make an awful Superman movie does not match up with his history of comic book productions across Marvel and DC.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • This has been an awful process—a frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline that has tested every limit of this institution.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • To be able to say that so many writers have been meaningful to you is not a horrible thing.
    John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
  • If Flagg develops into the human triple double who leads the team to the Western Conference Finals and NBA Finals in his first six years, the trade can be called not a horrible deal.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Also sickening is Aja, transforming from cocoon to butterfly — unfortunately, Jasmine Masters will see her in court.
    Chris Feil, Vulture, 4 July 2025
  • The portal that allows the players to go from school to school is also sickening.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • One function of bug poems is to remind us that messier and more hideous relations always obtain.
    Hannah Brooks-Motl June 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • An alarming situation looked all the more hideous as boos rained down at Dodger Stadium for the club’s fourth straight loss.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Duncan’s crew includes obnoxious head of security Bobby Atwater (Ed Skrein), Haitian co-pilot LeClerc (Bechir Sylvain) and deckhand Nina (Philippine Velge).
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2025
  • With the help of the chemical solanine, tomatoes deter obnoxious asparagus beetles, which, can do harm to asparagus plants.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the Astors, who had amassed a nearly obscene amount of real estate in New York City, became the country’s first multimillionaires by smuggling opium.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 3 July 2025
  • The use of obscene or profane language, personal attack, libel, slander, defamation, physical violence or the threat thereof, as determined by the presiding officer, shall constitute a disturbing a lawful meeting.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025

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“Odious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/odious. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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