Odious
adjective
Something or someone that is extremely unpleasant or disliked.
He was an odious man with no hint of charm.
Often appears as...
- odious task
- odious smell
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Disapproving
adjective
Related to or causing a great amount of dislike or disgust.
His attitude was extremely odious to the majority of people
Often appears as...
- odious crime
- odious duty
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Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Something or someone that is extremely unpleasant or disliked.
He was an odious man with no hint of charm.
Often appears as...
- odious task
- odious smell
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Related to or causing a great amount of dislike or disgust.
His attitude was extremely odious to the majority of people
Often appears as...
- odious crime
- odious duty
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Use 'odious' to express strong negative feelings towards a person or situation.
His odious remarks made everyone in the room uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity
'Odious' is more intense than simply disliking something; it conveys deep revulsion.
The garbage strike left an odious stench in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Formality
'Odious' is formal and may be seen in written critiques or serious discussions.
The editorial described the corrupt policy as an odious abuse of power.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Use 'odious' to express strong negative feelings towards a person or situation.
His odious remarks made everyone in the room uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity
'Odious' is more intense than simply disliking something; it conveys deep revulsion.
The garbage strike left an odious stench in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Formality
'Odious' is formal and may be seen in written critiques or serious discussions.
The editorial described the corrupt policy as an odious abuse of power.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Use 'odious' to express strong negative feelings towards a person or situation.
His odious remarks made everyone in the room uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity
'Odious' is more intense than simply disliking something; it conveys deep revulsion.
The garbage strike left an odious stench in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Formality
'Odious' is formal and may be seen in written critiques or serious discussions.
The editorial described the corrupt policy as an odious abuse of power.
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Video examples
Glenn Greenwald: Why...
and that secrets that should never have been kept in the first place end up uncovered. To me, that's the essence of journalism and that's what I'm committed to doing. As somebody who finds mass surveillance odious for all the reasons I just talked about and a lot more, I mean, I look at this as work that will never end until governments around the world
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Your elusive creative...
that assumption I think it's odious and I also think it's dangerous and I don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century I think better if we encourage you know our great creative minds to live you know and and I definitely know that in in my case in my situation it
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John Besh: New Orleans'...
pot you have to use a little bit of pork fat you well this is rendered this is just rendered bacon fat I think it would reason why grandmother's food tastes odious because she used nothing bacon fat as the base of all these great things
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
and that secrets that should never have been kept in the first place end up uncovered. To me, that's the essence of journalism and that's what I'm committed to doing. As somebody who finds mass surveillance odious for all the reasons I just talked about and a lot more, I mean, I look at this as work that will never end until governments around the world
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Your elusive creative...
that assumption I think it's odious and I also think it's dangerous and I don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century I think better if we encourage you know our great creative minds to live you know and and I definitely know that in in my case in my situation it
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John Besh: New Orleans'...
pot you have to use a little bit of pork fat you well this is rendered this is just rendered bacon fat I think it would reason why grandmother's food tastes odious because she used nothing bacon fat as the base of all these great things
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Quote examples
Michael Eric Dyson
American Author
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.
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Frank Miller
American Artist
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.
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Thomas Szasz
American Psychologist
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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James Otis
American Lawyer
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
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Daniel H. Hill
American General
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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Yishan Wong
Businessman
We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.
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Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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Samuel Richardson
English Novelist
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
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John Madden
American Entertainer
I think comparisons are odious.
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Michael Eric Dyson
American Author
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.
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Frank Miller
American Artist
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.
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Thomas Szasz
American Psychologist
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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James Otis
American Lawyer
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
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Daniel H. Hill
American General
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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Yishan Wong
Businessman
We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.
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Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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Samuel Richardson
English Novelist
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
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John Madden
American Entertainer
I think comparisons are odious.
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