We shall describe hereafter the meaning and object of these odious reports, which, joined with so many other fatal injuries, had filled up the measure of the marshal's indignation.
Death was about to deliver her from the odious tyranny of the people whose yoke weighed upon her, and she was at length in a position to reveal everything to Adrienne.
Yes--when I gave you anodious and ridiculous nickname, instead of calling you properly.
I say our enemies--for all that love me are odious to these wretches.
Their odious remembrance would spoil the joy I feel in seeing you restored to life--for your voice is less feeble, your cheeks are beginning to regain a little color.
I had been the victim of odious manoeuvres: it was my duty to punish their authors, for fear that, encouraged by impunity, these black-gowns should make other victims.
The odious appearances, of which she had been the dupe and victim, evidently formed part of a new plot of Rodin, and it only remained for Mdlle.
It was repugnant to the great soul of the young missionary, to stoop to a revelation of the odious plots of these priests.
She had been base enough to steal your papers, forced to this odious act, by the people who had dominion over her.
Timour, at whose royal table this most odious banquet was served, was lord of all Asia, and had the command of every refinement not only of luxury, but of gluttony.
The commander of the advance posts of the Austro-Hungarian Army, being a native of Dalmatia, became intimate with the Servians and committed an odious treason.
The odiousacts which have been committed in all parts of the country have a general character, throwing the responsibility upon the whole German Army.
I don't think such an odious word should ever be used.
Mun became odious to her, and thus he missed a great match and the terrible downfall that was to ensue.
If they had not had some private interest to serve by deceiving themselves, how could they have declared afterward that they had approved of Bonaparte only as Consul, but that as Emperor he was odious to them?
I wish I were in the place of that odious little Hopper," remarked Jobson, gallantly.
Moreover, at church the Misses Adela and Angela Gogglemush, in all their odious finery, monopolized the attention of the congregation, and even the rector was reported to be not indifferent to the attractions of the younger of the two.
We do not mean the handful of odiousmiscreants who played fool and demon in turns in the insurrectionary Commune and elsewhere: such men as Collot d'Herbois, or Carrier, or Panis.
On his release, he employed his leisure in the composition of an odious poem.
Yet as a faithful presentation of human selfishness, and of you and me in so far as we happen to be mainly selfish, the odious mirror has its uses by showing us what manner of man we are or may become.
This masked assailant conveys to the mind of the reader that I applaud and sympathise with the events of the winter of 1793, and more particularly with the odiousprocession of the Goddess of Reason at Notre Dame.
His office was unpopular and odious and the wags of the day made merry with qualities, which at any other time would have commanded respect.
Yet there is no doubt that the Emperor was at times almost popular in the Netherlands, and that he was never as odious as his successor.
It had not been Cora Lutworth or his political preoccupations, or anything but simply the odious fact that he had been in love with somebody else!
She felt her words and all her arts of pleasing were being nullified, and that she was up against an odious situation in which her strongest weapons were powerless.
I fain would banish far from hence The 'Rights of Man' and common sense; Confusion to his odious reign, That foe to princes, Thomas Paine!
I will hasten to prove that such a suppression had already engaged Bailly's attention, that he had partly effected it, and that no one ever spoke of those odious dens with more eloquence and firmness.
Though painful to me to say so, the odiousassimilation of Bailly to a dangerous criminal had not exhausted the rancour of his enemies.
Marat liked it to be believed that in quitting France for England, he fled especially from the spectacle of social renovation which was odious to him.
Imaginary Details added by ill-informed Historians to what that odious and frightful Event already presented 225 Portrait of Bailly.
This is what ought to have been ascertained, before giving themselves up to such violent and odious imputations.
I made every imaginable effort to deter Brissot from his sinister project; I remarked how all those who had rushed on enterprises of this nature had been branded in history by the odious title of assassin.
Bailly then protested with horror against the odiousimputations that the act of accusation had put into the mouth of the young dauphin.
But the grief that Bailly experienced on seeing himself the daily object of odious persecutions, left his patriotic convictions intact.
In spite of what thatodious article said, she believed that she could succeed on the stage.
Farces were enacted in every street; the odious ecclesiastics figuring as the principal buffoons.
She knew it was impossible to obtain the consent, even of Berlaymont and Viglius, to such an odious measure as the one proposed.
It is easy, however, to see that a minister with such views was likely to be as congenial to his master as he was odious to the people.
Van der Hulst, a person of infamous character, was not the man to render the institution less odious than it was by its nature.
That he should be an object of interest to her child, and of fear or reproach to her lord, made him the more odious to herself.
She not only sins as badly as other nations, but manages to make herself as odious for her manner of sinning as for the sins themselves.
We are in arms not only to suppress an odious uprising of despotism against freedom within our own borders, but to show by our example, to all the nations of the earth, what freedom is and what freedom means.
I was always so careful of her modesty that I never allowed her to sit in the Maze with an odious little nudity in stone always hovering about, till I declare they should have planted ivy to climb up his shameless legs.
You have no cant of the road and, as a Dilettante, would certainly be regarded with odious suspicion by every regular highway-man between Berwick and Dover.
And oh, Amor," she went on, "those odious postillions pushed their way to the room and wanted money and Sir George kindly came to the rescue and bade them begone.
I vow I heard that odious young Miss Kitcat laugh from her balcony as we flew past--yes, flew--and such bumping!
If I promise never, never again to cause you the slightest uneasiness, will you forgive me for once, and take me away from this odious town?
Turkey, having no champion, was in still greater danger; her conduct in condoning the irregularities of Prince Alexander was as odious to Alexander III.
In many quarters the action of Russia was stigmatised as the outcome of ambition and greed, rendered all the more odious by the cloak of philanthropy which she had hitherto worn.
Spain had maintained its odious distinction in the West, and it is not surprising that the suffering Jews by active intrigue materially assisted the triumphant invasion of the country by the Saracens.
Their affliction brought the Dryfooses into humaner relations with the Marches, who had hitherto regarded them as a necessary evil, as the odious means of their own prosperity.
All that Kennedy hoped was that he would not tell others as well as himself, the odious fact of his success.
She would be exposed to very odious happenings if this disappearance of her husband were made, in any wide sense of the word, public.
We have done everything we could; we have submitted to odious interrogatories, first from one and then from the other--and now our hotel is to be searched!
Mrs. Dampier was not present at the, to Senator Burton, odious half-hour which followed their return to the Hôtel Saint Ange.
And this odious lie, I purpose, while strength abides with me, to hold up to the enduring detestation of mankind.
How is it possible for a husband who loves and respects his wife, or a wife who loves and respects her husband, or parents who adore their children, to have anything but contempt for this woman and her odious teachings?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
