Word: odiously
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...action of the public officials in repealing the fine and sentence of James Delacey, proprietor of the Dunster House Bookshop, brings the infamous case to a close. It is the only ending to an odious business and the officials deserve more to be praised for their intelligence than congratulated for any show of "clemency...
...actions. From the first, it has protested against the stinginess and high-handed attitude of the authorities, and has in no way attempted to excuse it. Nor is it necessary to emphasize once more the evident mismanagement of the press relationships which resulted in a nation-wide and odious prominence for Harvard...
...three, or ten percent, the maximum to be determined by Federal law. Other anti-prohibitors have clamored for 2.75% beer or for light (i. e. 9%) wines. Still other shrewd opponents of the 18th Amendment insisted on its most severe and cruel enforcement as a means of rendering it odious...
...prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." And from the famed nursery tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Dean Jonathan Swift: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives [mankind] to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth...
...American people want the truth. Here it is. We are trying to free Mexico from the odious and inhuman tyranny of the dictator who has made robots of the President, the Cabinet and other creations out of his bag of tricks...