odious

Preposition: in

• extreme: Friend agree that this latest manifestation is odious in the extreme?

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: Others find competitive music festivals somewhat odious in principle.

Modifies a noun

• piskie: The odious little piskie drooled, green eyed with envy at the small sacks of precious crystals.
• debt: Such ' odious debts ' , we say, should be completely written off.
• regime: Added to this indictment is Mr Blair's crazy personal penchant for government-supported arms sales to odious regimes.
• crime: But eighteen glasses of gin consumed among boxers in an ignoble pot-house it was an odious crime and not to be pardoned readily.
• character: The story begins with Otis, the ' charity man ' , an odious character plying his evil trade in abandoned, unwanted children.
• man: Do you know, there are two odious young men who have been staring at me this half hour.

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: This was seen as an analogous occupation to that of the Soviets in Afghanistan, and particularly odious in the land of Mecca.
• so: It is otherwise with God's children, no sins so odious to them as their own: 1 Tim.
• especially: Especially odious is Victor, who spews vitriol and rhetoric as tho from Compton rather than, er, London.
• rather: That said, it fair bombs along - until to my mind, it all became a rather odious piece of literature.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Hence such feasts as the New Moon and Sabbath became odious to them.
• get: Yes, I suppose the these comparisons can get rather odious, or as you say " redundant " .