Odious

(a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

(a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.

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• I would never have treated Miss Crawley's faithful friends as that odious designing Mrs. Bute has done. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If,' said Mr. Stiggins--'if there is any one of them less odious than another, it is the liquor called rum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Lord Mansfield declared that slavery was a condition unknown to English law, an odious condition, and Somersett walked out of the court a free man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And surely these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that, and to wait, if you would make proper representations to them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Now this odious, artful rogue of a Major was thinking in his own mind that he was sure of his case. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You stupid dear, why do you say such odious things to me? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended; and 'setting one's cap at a man,' or 'making a conquest,' are the most odious of all. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Not of those odious men and women, said she: such people should be steerage passengers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mr. Woodley seemed to me to be a most odious person. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The long-backed odious creature will call here to-morrow, answered Julia. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I saw him--I wept--I cried--I fell at his odious knees. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I wish we had never seen those odious purse-proud Osbornes. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• These delays and disappointments are quite odious. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Raffles, recovering quickly, returning to the free use of his odious powers--how could Bulstrode wish for that? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The very thought of them is odious and low. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Between such a woman and her brother-in-law, the odious Baronet at the Hall, it is manifest that there could be very little in common. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The only place where she is not likely to meet those odious Rawdons is at church, and that won't amuse her, Mrs. Bute justly felt. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He added (with the odious talkativeness of servants), that her name was Fanny. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was an odious face--crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• But the odious things were there, and remained with her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• What I wished to say was that Mr. Woodley was perfectly odious, but that Mr. Carruthers, who was a much older man, was more agreeable. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Dobbin, who was thus vigorously besieged, was in the meanwhile in a state of the most odious tranquillity. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I am a martyr to duty and to your odious unclerical habit of hunting, Bute. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The liquor appeared to give the odious rebel courage. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Could one never do the simplest, the most harmless thing, without subjecting one's self to some odious conjecture? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Odious insinuations both! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The contrast of her manners and appearance with those of the heiress, made the idea of a union with the latter appear doubly ludicrous and odious. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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