How to Use odious in a Sentence

odious

adjective
  • It was one of the most odious crimes of recent history.
  • But those of us who find Trump odious are not living in a silo.
    — Roxane Gay, Fortune, 13 May 2023
  • Briggs claimed that being gay was a lifestyle choice, and an odious one at that.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But for all the talk of their odious policies and harmful rhetoric, one thing has really stood out.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2025
  • These efforts may not spell the end of Iran’s odious, oppressive regime.
    — Dennis Ross, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • For one thing, Staten Island was once home to the world's largest and most odious trash dump.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • For one thing, Staten Island was once home to the world’s largest and most odious trash dump.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Clinicians have duties of care to patients, even odious ones.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • The response from the right has, thus, been to largely ignore the odious substance of the draft itself.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 May 2022
  • This seems like an odious work-around for an expensive scope, but not all of us can afford expensive scopes.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2020
  • There are even lawful ways to change or reverse odious Supreme Court precedents.
    — David French, National Review, 11 Dec. 2017
  • There’s plenty of nights where the game’s modern trappings can be annoying, even odious.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
  • Khloé earned money for an odious program called Revenge Body.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 July 2023
  • 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
  • Of all the non-competitive nonsense of the last few years, the blatant tanking was not the most odious.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Vacatur is a common, but odious, practice in the federal courts.
    — David Post, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
  • In the wake of these odious media machinations, there can be only willing naïveté among the populace.
    — Armond White, National Review, 17 May 2023
  • Using the odious term of genocide does nothing to help what’s going on in the Middle East.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
  • Optimists hope that Tokayev will expunge the most odious elements of the Nazarbayev era.
    — Nargis Kassenova, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In this Henry Willson saga, catch and kill has an especially sort of odious place in his career.
    — Lauren Ames, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But the more a person mulls over the mechanics of virality the more odious the experience seems.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Almost everyone can agree that the Daily Stormer is an odious hate site, but critics have warned of a slippery slope.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The leverage to join FS and build a stadium, no matter how odious in its soccer-centric design, spiked.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 May 2017
  • This year, the movie with the most nominations is Emilia Pérez, in my view a so-so film whose star has said some pretty odious things online.
    — Mike Pearl, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Now, some will say that Black Americans have been so traumatized by the odious uses of the word that the very sound of it causes distress.
    — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The only really odious members of the party will, of course, be those termed the Young, who are almost certain to prove fast, rude, and self-assertive.
    — Nancy Mitford, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
  • For one thing, the characters are, on the whole, rather nicer (though Cameron is very much cut from the same odious cloth as Shane, and Tanya is still Tanya).
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The President of the United States is a white supremacist and a racist, just like his odious father was before him.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • But Weinstein’s odious presence is only a portion of what made the 2003 Oscars so vile.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But the benefits of protecting even odious speech often arrive indirectly, later, and in ways that nobody at the time could have predicted.
    — Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025

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