odium

Example Sentences

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This season will only add to the odium.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2022

Of those who rely on the metaphysical, their arguments are usually strongly imbued with prejudice, and even odium, and, as such, are beyond the pale of scientific criticism.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2018

Labor reformer Orestes Brownson went further and condemned wages as “a cunning device of the devil” that gave employers “all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.”

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The invidious utterance or person invites odium more openly.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2017

As a counterbalance, then, we begin with that everfresh and exciting odium: the author’s formal introduction.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger