Careful Words

odious (adj.)

  Comparisons are odious.

John Fortescue (Circa 1395-1485): De Laudibus Leg. Angliae. Chap. xix.

Comparisons are odious.

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): Lust's Dominion. Act iii. Sc. 4.

She and comparisons are odious.

Dr John Donne (1573-1631): Elegy 8. The Comparison.

"Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke,"

Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 246.