Odious has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Pray do not talk of that odious man. | |
| 2. | Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. | |
| 3. | The wedding was scarcely over, when the step-mother's bad temper began to show itself. She could not bear the goodness of this young girl, because it made her own daughters appear the more odious. | |
| 4. | In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, humans are described as being "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." | |
| 5. | It was an odious face—crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-grey eyes and white lashes. |