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odious

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o·di·ous  (d-s)
adj.
Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure. See Synonyms at hateful.
[Middle English, from Old French odieus, from Latin odisus, from odium, hatred; see odium.]
odi·ous·ly adv.
odi·ous·ness n.
odious
Adjective
offensive or hateful: I steeled myself for the odious task [see odium]
odiousness n
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Adj.1.odiousodious - unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
abominable, detestable, execrable
hateful - evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
odious
adjective offensive, nasty, foul, disgusting, horrible, unpleasant, revolting, obscene, sickening, vile, horrid, repellent, unsavoury, obnoxious, unpalatable, repulsive, disagreeable, nauseating, hateful, repugnant, loathsome, abhorrent, abominable, execrable, detestable, yucky or yukky (slang) yucko Austral. (slang) << OPPOSITE delightful
Translations
Spanish odious [ˈəudɪəs] adj → odioso
French odious [ˈəudɪəs] adj → odieux/euse, détestable
German odious [ˈəudɪəs] adj → widerwärtig
Italian odious [ˈəudɪəs] adj → odioso/a, ripugnante
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This insistence in using the odious word arises from the fact that a particularly benighted landsman must imagine the act of anchoring as a process of throwing something overboard, whereas the anchor ready for its work is already overboard, and is not thrown over, but simply allowed to fall.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
There is a fine avenue of a mile long leading to the house, and the woman at the lodge-gate (over the pillars of which are a serpent and a dove, the supporters of the Crawley arms), made us a number of curtsies as she flung open the old iron carved doors, which are something like those at odious Chiswick.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
The better reason for my not being conversant with the slang of the bank, which is here dinning in my ears from morning to night; that noise of jingling crowns, which are constantly being counted and re-counted, is odious to me.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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