Word: odious
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...When the odious "subcommittee" ghost had been pretty well laid, it was revealed that for almost a week previously John Pierpont Morgan had been sitting in on an informal group chairmanned by Baron Revelstoke, the softspoken, intensely aristocratic tycoon who heads the great British banking firm of Baring Brothers...
...Paris' name, however, became known. Bourgeois neighbors were scandalized to discover that quiet M. Anatole Deibler was also the phantasmagoric M. de Paris, that he made his living by odious matutinal decapitations...
...Odious. Detestable...
...these typical verses were of a self-evidently odious and detestable nature, TIME would expect both Mohammedans and Buddhists to join with TIME in holding them up to general odium and detestation...
Rules outlawing jaywalking are odious because they clog the machinery of nature by meddling with the struggle for existence. Hereunto the human race has advanced in wheel-dodging by leaps and bounds. It seems before the new traffic code was adopted, that within another generation the citizen would as deftly sidestep an automobile as he now does a bill collector. But if the race is to be protected, presumably, by such laws, it no one is to be allowed to test his resourcefulness in the face of formidable mechanical foes, if, in a word, jaywalking is to become a lost...