Odious

[O·di*ous]

If something is odious it's hateful. If you become a historian of slavery, you'll learn all the details of that odious trade.

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Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

Adjective S.
unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke


a.
Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

a.
Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.


Odious

O"di*ous , a. [L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F. odieux. See Odium.] 1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice. "All wickedness will be most odious." Sprat.
He rendered himself odious to the Parliament.
2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. Milton.
The odious side of that polity.
Syn. -- Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome; invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular. -- O"di*ous`ly. adv. -- O"di*ous*ness, n.

Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

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Usage Examples

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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Other Usage Examples

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

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