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Example sentences for "odiously"

Lexicographically close words:
odes; odeur; odic; odio; odious; odiousness; odit; odium; odometer; odontoid
  1. Abhor the popular spirit of envy, which maketh the poor, for the most part, think odiously of the rich and their superiors; because they have that which they had rather have themselves.

  2. They have oftener confessed sin than others, and spoke odiously of it, as the vilest thing, and aggravated it to God and man.

  3. I'm sure you mean to be odiously rude, but to my taste it's a great compliment.

  4. She has no other means to show him with any proof what this man whose name is so odiously entangled with her own has, or has not, been to her.

  5. It sounds odiously to us to hear him recommend for dysentery a powder made from "the sole of an old shoe worn by some man that walks much.

  6. It is too rarely that we see it, and as it dies out and gives place to the odiously convenient pump, with the last patent on its cast-iron uninterestingness, does it not seem as if the farmyard aspect had lost half its attraction?

  7. I notice people always call you odiously cynical when you talk plain horse-sense to them.

  8. Oh, men always talk of their duty when they want to be odiously cruel.

  9. It forced men to conclude that authority was odiously stupid and still more odiously ferocious, that existing governments were accursed, that the guardians and ministers of law, divine and human, were more guilty than their culprits.

  10. His advocate had odiously slandered him, then fled, and the court refused to allow him a second defender.

  11. Yet he is fond of society, and is never content until he has the house crammed with people, from garret to basement, to whom he makes himself odiously disagreeable whenever occasion offers.

  12. He chuckles odiously as he winds up this pleasing speech.

  13. The man was odiously unctuous and self-satisfied.

  14. The effect of these black walls, black furniture, black hangings, was odiously funereal.

  15. He was determined that he would clear the situation this afternoon; the more determined because he was conscious of a feeling odiously resembling fear which had before now held him back from plain dealing with Mildred.

  16. No odiously inoffensive comparisons, if you please.

  17. If I'm going to be odiously conscious of how I may strike the fellow," he reflected, "it was so little what I came out for that I may as well stop before I begin.

  18. You can speak odiously of unfaithful, soul-betraying ministers; and do you not consider how odious a soul-betraying parent is?

  19. Finding himself necessary to her, he grew odiously presumptuous.

  20. Beattie grinned so odiously that McNiven had to say: "Oh, I remember you.

  21. She is 'reliable'--and odiously expensive.

  22. I had an odiously guilty feeling, and in the matter of "secrets" it seemed to me that I could give Lady Audley points.

  23. In the odiously smug phrase with which his native literature was given to describing virtuous youth, he was rather by way of being a "clean-limbed, clean-minded young American.

  24. On each side squatted the low houses, odiously alike.

  25. I have the sense of having seen you odiously little last year--a blighted and distracted season.

  26. The place where he dwells, as well as his profession, will both stink odiously in the nostrils of the Lord, and so both come to ruin and desolation.

  27. I have often observed, that that which is natural, and so comely in one, looks odiously when imitated by another, I speak as to gestures and actions in preaching and prayer.

  28. He had simply shrugged his shoulders; he was odiously unsympathetic.

  29. But occasionally, so cruelly conducted is this world, she was driven to take odiously disagreeable steps, for fear of the speedy and inevitable disaster which would attend their omission.

  30. And with odiously familiar deference he had agreed with her; he had assumed the right of discussing things with her in private.

  31. She talked exclusively to Siegburg who was odiously entertaining, and who glanced across the table now and then, his eyes sparkling with merry malice, at Oswald.

  32. Of all the Italian formulas that have served to mislead the liberal mind, there is not one more odiously false and deceptive than the too famous expression, A free church in a free country.

  33. You cannot conceive how odiously she behaved, nor what airs she assumed.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrociously; awfully; dreadfully; flagrantly; grossly; horribly; horridly; infamously; meanly; miserably; monstrously; outrageously; poorly; terribly