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Six example sentences with odious, each labelled with its topic.
The odious practice of jailing debtors persisted for decades before reformers finally pushed it out of the statute books.
History
Austen gives Mr. Collins an odious mix of flattery and self-regard that makes every reader dread his letters.
Literature
Charging staff for their own uniforms struck the new director as odious, and she ended the policy in her first week.
Business
Voters found the poll tax so odious that the party which introduced it lost every seat in the county.
Politics
The court struck down the odious rule that let a lender seize an entire farm over one late payment.
Law
The film's odious landlord cuts the heat in January and smiles while he does it, and the audience hisses on cue.
Movies
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