Odious Definition

ōdē-əs
adjective
Arousing or deserving hatred or loathing; disgusting; offensive.
Webster's New World
Extremely unpleasant; repulsive.
An odious smell.
American Heritage

Disgusting, disgraceful, hateful, vile, loathsome, scandalous. See also odium.

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Origin of Odious

  • Middle English from Old French odieus from Latin odiōsus from odium hatred odium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Via French odieux, "odious", from Latin odiosus, from odium, "hate", -osus, "-ous", from odisse, "to hate".

    From Wiktionary

Odious Sentence Examples

  • He had to repay the odious debt to the Council.

  • His attention turned to the odious favor.

  • Occasionally they appear in odious positions.

  • At Palermo the Sicilians struggled hard to establish a republic in place of the odious government of an alien dynasty.

  • He showed great hostility to the Puritan sabbath and supported the reissue of the Book of Sports, especially odious to that party, and severely reprimanded Chief Justice Richardson for his interference with the Somerset wakes.

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OODODI

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SUSOUS

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