Word: odiously
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Even after some of the burriers to social mobility had been removed, women were still confined by severe standards of moral behavior--standards to which men were not expected to adhere. Particularly odious were England's Contagious Diseases Acts, passed in the 1860s. These laws stipulated that any woman suspected of prostitution would be inspected for venereal diseases: if she was diseased, she was forced to enter a hospital until she was free of desease. The enforcement of these acts, particularly the brutal medical inspection which many women were forced to undergo, horrified the repeal of the acts, she visited...
...manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter the mouth, and the still more frightful manner of cleaning the teeth afterwards with a pocket knife." Charles Dickens, in his American Notes, deplored the national pastime of chewing tobacco, spitting toward spittoons, and often missing-"odious practices . . . most offensive and sickening . . . an exaggeration of nastiness...
...idea of an "oasis of free speech" is nothing but a cesspool for the "Who's Who in Mass Murder," the architects of death squads, racist terror and gas ovens. We in the Spartacus Youth I cague were among the 600 students who shouted down Weinberger last November. But odious though Weinberger's views may be, we were there to protest his deeds. We protested on behalf of the thousands of Weinberger's victims whose corpses are piled in mass graves from H. Salvador to Lebanon. There are plenty of right-wing professors at Harvard who act as "distinguished" apologists...
Chernenko: Oh Womack, not that odious weasel...
...think I'm doing?" or Vegas: "Listen, when I was a kid, the neighborhood I grew up in? It was so dirty I'd sit out in the sun for two hours and get a nice stain." But it is terse, credible and consistent with the speakers, odious or otherwise...