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    1. The trade of a butcher is a brutal and an odious business ; but it is in most


    2. Sam could hardly refuse and drank the odious combination of carrot, cauliflower and spring onion with crushed cloves and garlic


    3. I mean not, however, by any thing which I have here said, to throw any odious imputation upon the general character of the servants of the East India company, and touch less upon that of any particular persons


    4. The laudable motive of all these regulations, is to extend our own manufactures, not by their own improvement, but by the depression of those of all our neighbours, and by putting an end, as much as possible, to the troublesome competition of such odious and disagreeable rivals


    5. was afterwards deposed from the throne of Denmark, where his conduct had rendered him as odious as in Sweden


    6. The magistrates of Berne and Zurich, who had no particular quarrel with the pope, established with great ease the reformation in their respective cantons, where just before some of the clergy had, by an imposture somewhat grosser than ordinary, rendered the whole order both odious and contemptible


    7. } Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression ; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it


    8. This odious visit rendered the tax odious


    9. This exemption, of which the object is to save private families from the odious visit and examination of the tax-gatherer, occasions the burden of those duties to fall frequently much lighter upon the rich than upon the poor


    10. Fourthly, such taxes, by subjecting at least the dealers in the taxed commodities, to the frequent visits and odious examination of the tax-gatherers, expose them sometimes, no doubt, to some degree of oppression, and always to much trouble and vexation; and though vexation, as has already been said, is not strictly speaking expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it

    11. But to subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers, in the same manner as we subject the keepers of ale-houses and the brewers for public sale, would be altogether inconsistent with liberty


    12. By a union with Great Britain, the greater part of people of all ranks in Ireland would gain an equally complete deliverance from a much more oppressive aristocracy ; an aristocracy not founded, like that of Scotland, in the natural and respectable distinctions of birth and fortune, but in the most odious of all distinctions, those of religious and political prejudices; distinctions which, more than any other, animate both the insolence of the oppressors, and the hatred and indignation of the oppressed, and which commonly render the inhabitants of the same country more hostile to one another than those of different countries ever are


    13. what Liberals were hoping for! Here it comes: ―root cause‖ diatribes about the odious intolerance of Conservatives…and Republicans, that, to a news media handicapped by political blinders, will be perceived as ―Guilty by Association


    14. themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire those chariots and horsemen


    15. filled with meat; the woman being odious when she is then married; and a maid servant who is heir to her mistress


    16. I wondered how they all had managed to separate the odious policy from the young Khan and his protector


    17. 4 Whom you hated for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices;


    18. I agreed as long as it wasn’t too odious to them


    19. However, when speaking about Alaska it would be well to remember that its true personality comes out in all its strength in winter with its vicious and, for some, odious climate


    20. With an odious and glacial voice he confronted him pressing to delivering the girl or succumbing up to the death

    21. 4 The lawyer answered, "He who showed mercy," that he might refrain from even speaking that odious word, Samaritan


    22. Endless waiting in an hotel room with television that openly promoted the corrupt American lifestyles with its abundant imperfections and odious domesticity -- soap operas, they called it -- did nothing to improve his patience


    23. Devil’s Bend, huh? It seemed a fairly odious name for a picnic spot


    24. We were both starving and bored with staring at his odious fizog, so we called it a morning and fortified ourselves with chicken doner and enough ayran to drown Weasel in


    25. That treason was made even more odious by the massacres of Polish prisoners committed at that time by the Soviets


    26. wizard’s apprentice, possibly the most odious man he had ever met


    27. The felicity with which the rest of the population acquiesced in it made this refusal more odious by contrast


    28. “Oh, don’t mention that odious boy!” Mrs Astley fumed, something about the Yorkshireman always seemed to rile her up


    29. The past three weeks have been absolutely odious


    30. Then I shall know you have at last had enough of me, of my moods, of my odious fits of bombastic eloquence, of my still more odious facetiousness, of my scolding of you and of my complacency about myself

    31. It makes me ashamed of myself; as if I were a plutocrat, a profiteer, a bloated possessor of more than my share, a bestower of favours--of all odious things to be! Now I perceive that I never have had guests before, but only friends


    32. "If you want to get rid of the hares and foxes, you must consent to have wire-netting, which is odious, right round your garden


    33. '_Prachtvoll_, nicht?' I heard her say with an odious jollity through the singing in my ears


    34. Pity! Smug, odious word; smug, odious thing


    35. Seriously though, if an individual finds Christmas (and more importantly) the Christ inspiring this particular celebration so odious, why are they accepting gifts anyway? If this charity is being thrust upon the recipients against their will in the same spirit of “we’re doing this for your own good whether you want it or not” characterizing many of the programs directed at manipulating those targeted into accepting their status as “underprivileged”, perhaps its is Toys for Tots that needs the cliched lecture about not imposing its values on others rather than the American people receiving a lecture on the matter from Toys for Tots


    36. The romance endured for over a year and the family"s radars were twirling ever more desperately in view of this unexpected and odious development


    37. Oedipus Rex: blinded by lies, and then tearing his own eyes out rather than seeing the odious truth


    38. Who wants to face such an unpleasant truth? Who wants to shoulder such an odious responsibility; when we were not responsible for its creation in the first place? Yet every advantage, every kind of power, every tool, every gadget, every laborsaving device, every machine, every car we use, is due to the tool development of our ancestors


    39. Get the hell out and cleanse yourself of your odious past! You owe your culture nothing but the back of your hand and the heel of your boot on their asses


    40. Is it possible that you do not know that comparisons of wit with wit, valour with valour, beauty with beauty, birth with birth, are always odious and unwelcome? I, master barber, am not Neptune, the god of the waters, nor do I try to make anyone take me for an astute man, for I am not one

    41. This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe


    42. If she had spoken seriously, it was very ridiculous, he thought, even odious; for he had no reason to hate the good Charles, not being what is called devoured by jealousy; and on this subject Emma had taken a great vow that he did not think in the best of taste


    43. to a woman rendered odious by habitual intoxication; but who would expect him,


    44. little maister and his staunch supporter, that odious old man!


    45. a way peculiar to him, and by his odious presence, confirmed me in all


    46. the scene, and my odious persecutor still intent of pushing his brutal


    47. The cruel and interested care taken to recover me, saved an odious


    48. "Pray," said I, as the two odious casts with the twitchy leer upon them caught


    49. "The better reason for my not being conversant with the slang of the bank, which is here dinning in my ears from morning to night; that noise of jingling crowns, which are constantly being counted and re-counted, is odious to me


    50. The baroness had been tolerably composed until the name of Villefort had been pronounced; but then she became pale, and, rising, as if touched by a spring, she stretched out her hands as though conjuring an apparition; she then took two or three steps towards her husband, as though to tear the secret from him, of which he was ignorant, or which he withheld from some odious calculation,—odious, as all his calculations were

































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    Synonyme für "odious"

    abominable detestable execrable odious disgusting repulsive forbidding loathsome obnoxious repellent hateful invidious