Thus the months glided rapidly and serenely away, and he was positively happy in a mode of life that he once would have characterized as odiously humdrum. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
He grinned odiously and came across the bed after me. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
He chuckles odiously as he winds up this pleasing speech. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Oh, and Hew Edwards, what an odiously biased person he is. From Wordnik.com. [Quotables] Reference
The morning of the day when he was to arrive seemed to her to be odiously long. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And he was particularly odiously cruel, as we know from the mass graves, and other things. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2005] Reference
I personally would like to see more women here so I can simper odiously and make more unsavoury suggestions. From Wordnik.com. [The Male Dominated Blogosphere: Was Melissa Kite Right?] Reference
Again, he may paint you lamentably like, odiously like, yet give you a sinister expression, or at least an unpleasant one. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Little I care whence you come; you shall not return to boast of having acted so odiously with impunity, for you shall be punished. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
One group that has been plowing this terrain for some years is Gerald Steinberg's odiously named "NGO Monitor," in the attacks on HRW he is being joined by bigger guns. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Levy: The "Swiftboating" of Human Rights Watch] Reference
‘If you will be odiously, demnebly, outrIgeously jealous, my soul,’ said Mr Mantalini, ‘you will be very miserable — horrid miserable — demnition miserable.’. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
I've odiously neglected him -- by a complication of accidents. From Wordnik.com. [The Awkward Age] Reference
"They are, indeed, an odiously disagreeable set of mortals," continued. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
They had an unhealthy look, sallow and pale, and they were odiously precocious. From Wordnik.com. [The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands] Reference
It sounds odiously to us to hear him recommend for dysentery a powder made from. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
"Not yet awhile," said he, in a voice so odiously sweet that Garnache caught his breath. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Martin's Summer] Reference
The effect of these black walls, black furniture, black hangings, was odiously funereal. From Wordnik.com. [A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg] Reference
Polly, but yesterday so unfamiliar, were now as odiously wearisome as though I had known them for a century. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)] Reference
This princess, so odiously calumniated, and so worthy of respect, set us an example of courage and resignation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II] Reference
In the life of a country house a number of practical jokes are considered admissible, some of them odiously treacherous. From Wordnik.com. [Parisians in the Country] Reference
Maupas, who had been so warm in the cause the evening before, and was put forward so odiously, began to back out and lose courage. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon the Little] Reference
All those people whose childish and odiously ridiculous disputes you hear snarling above you -- "It wasn't me that began, it was you!". From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference
Rep. Boehner's crude attempt at a joke odiously mischaracterized anarchist philosophy and painted an inaccurate portrait of its core values. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
Men were absurd in many ways; lovably like Jasper, impracticably like her father, odiously like that grotesquely supine creature in the chair. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
"If I'm going to be odiously conscious of how I may strike the fellow," he reflected, "it was so little what I came out for that I may as well stop before I begin.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
As one of the main architects of the current emasculated, politically correct, target driven odiously Orwellian policing situation in the UK, I have always distrusted her. From Wordnik.com. [POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Crowds went to Squab and Lynch's, in Long Acre, to examine the carriages building for her, so faultless, so splendid, so quiet, so odiously unostentatious and provokingly simple!. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
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