as in disgusting
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
an odious and unforgivable insult
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Recent Examples of odious
As is consistent across American life, the only way to hold a corporation like Spotify accountable for its inequitable distribution model and odious use of A.I. is to deny it access to your wallet and personal data.
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Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
By publicly and privately drawing attention to the institution of slavery and those enslaved, especially in Southern cities and plantations, Lafayette was making his position known and trying to hasten the end of the odious practice.
—Elizabeth M. Reese / Made By History, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
Even odious combatants seeking to transform into political parties as part of peace processes often should be allowed to do so in the name of peace.
—Aila M. Matanock, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2018
But unfortunately, odious anti-Palestinian messaging proliferates too, laced with claims of ethnic superiority of Israelis and Jews over Palestinians and Muslims.
—Dj Rosenthal, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
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Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
By publicly and privately drawing attention to the institution of slavery and those enslaved, especially in Southern cities and plantations, Lafayette was making his position known and trying to hasten the end of the odious practice.
—Elizabeth M. Reese / Made By History, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
Even odious combatants seeking to transform into political parties as part of peace processes often should be allowed to do so in the name of peace.
—Aila M. Matanock, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2018
But unfortunately, odious anti-Palestinian messaging proliferates too, laced with claims of ethnic superiority of Israelis and Jews over Palestinians and Muslims.
—Dj Rosenthal, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for odious
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This woman is just an awful, disgusting person in general.Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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Regardless of who wins, social media will be abuzz with the postgame mayo shower, which is either good comedy or downright disgusting, depending on your tolerance for condiments getting poured on people.Dan Santaromita, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
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Things did get ugly a few years later, with the Mexican-American war.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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His users are the ones that will suffer the most when the platform gets uglier.Scott Nover, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
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After missing 27 games with a left hamstring strain, Zion Williamson returned to the court on Tuesday night and provided one of the few gratifying moments the New Orleans Pelicans could savor during an awful season.William Guillory, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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But any Three Mile Island-style tech meltdown would come with awful collateral damage.Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
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Given this area’s rich history with horrible weather and big events at this time of year, there is still a chance that the Cotton Bowl will be postponed until Saturday.Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2025
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How horrible for my sweet little nephews to watch their house disappear like this.Becca Longmire, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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While the American food supply is among the safest in the world, the Food and Drug Administration estimates that there are about 48 million cases of foodborne illness annually – the equivalent of sickening 1 in 6 Americans each year.Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024
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Los Angeles County is suing the owner of Chiquita Canyon Landfill for failing to control a high-temperature chemical reaction that is cooking garbage and sickening nearby residents.Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Both the Hatter and the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) get boilerplate tragic origins in a cluttered plot that’s drowned out by the hideous, oppressive visual effects.Josh Bell, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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No abstract theory regardless of how sincerely held should impede or distract from that hideous, concrete real-world reality.Caroline Frost, Deadline, 24 Nov. 2024
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Gone are different colored lines, obnoxious alarms if something is a half-mile away and a way-too-strong back-up warning.James Raia, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
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No one should feel pressured to maintain a relationship with someone who, day in and day out, displays obnoxious behavior without consideration for the other’s feelings.Mark Travers, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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He was booked on charges of enticing a child under 16, distribution of obscene matter, and lascivious posing and exhibiting a child in the nude.Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
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Of course, obscene content has been censored, and services that clearly broke intellectual property laws, like Napster, WikiLeaks, and The Pirate Bay were shuttered, but, for the average person, the internet remained broadly open in the United States.Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Odious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/odious. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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