Example Sentences

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The odiously gauche, lantern-jawed, knowingly named Jonah, liaison to the president and thus ever the bearer of ill luck and bad news: and aforementioned whiz-kid Dan, who was indeed certifiable oomska, but useful oomska.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2012

I sometimes see of ye an actual pair Go by! linked fin by fin! most odiously.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2012

One person may remember only that in the first grade he thought the books of the Bible were named after four odiously well-behaved Sunday school classmates named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

From Time Magazine Archive

I know this sounds odiously modest, but I don't think it needed much goodness.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had an unhealthy look, sallow and pale, and they were odiously precocious.

From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)