Michael Eric Dyson

When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.

American Author

Frank Miller

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

American Artist

Thomas Szasz

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

American Psychologist

James Otis

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

American Lawyer

Daniel H. Hill

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

American General

Yishan Wong

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

Businessman

Isaac Newton

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

English Mathematician

Virginia Woolf

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

British Author

Samuel Richardson

English Novelist

John Madden

American Entertainer

Use 'odious' to express strong negative feelings towards a person or situation.

Negative Emotion

'Odious' is more intense than simply disliking something; it conveys deep revulsion.

Intensity

'Odious' is formal and may be seen in written critiques or serious discussions.

Formality

'Odious' implies something that evokes a strong, instinctive reaction of distaste or disgust.

Strong Disgust

When describing actions or behavior, 'odious' suggests moral repugnance.

Harsh Judgment

Use 'odious' to emphasize your personal reaction of dislike, not just a general poor quality.

Personal Reactions

 and that secrets that should never have been kept in the first place end up uncovered. To me, that's the essence of journalism and that's what I'm committed to doing. As somebody who finds mass surveillance odious for all the reasons I just talked about and a lot more, I mean, I look at this as work that will never end until governments around the world

Glenn Greenwald: Why...

 that assumption I think it's odious and I also think it's dangerous and I don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century I think better if we encourage you know our great creative minds to live you know and and I definitely know that in in my case in my situation it

Your elusive creative...

 pot you have to use a little bit of pork fat you well this is rendered this is just rendered bacon fat I think it would reason why grandmother's food tastes odious because she used nothing bacon fat as the base of all these great things