odious
Americanadjective
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deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- Synonyms:
- execrable, despicable, objectionable, abominable
- Antonyms:
- lovable, attractive
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highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting.
adjective
Related Words
See hateful.
Other Word Forms
- odiously adverb
- odiousness noun
- unodious adjective
- unodiously adverb
- unodiousness noun
Etymology
Origin of odious
1350–1400; Middle English from Latin odiōsus, equivalent to od(ium) “hatred,” odium + -ōsus -ous
Example Sentences
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“The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice,” he warned.
From Salon
Stewart did not refrain from expressing this opinion in the saltiest terms on-air, especially to Carlson, the show’s co-host who was cast as the overgrown college Republican with odious views and a polka dot bowtie.
From Salon
But it’s to Raimi and the actors’ credit that they manage to make such an odious character as Bradley actually sympathetic — and so clear a heroine as Linda complex and thorny.
From Los Angeles Times
Not everyone hailed his “colossal tower”; for some critics it was an “odious column of bolted metal” and a “stupefying folly.”
The U.S. wants him to sign a peace deal with provisions that most Ukrainians find odious.
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