Definitions
Extremely unpleasant, hateful, or deserving dislike.
Word origin
From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odiōsus, from odium (“hate”).
Used in a sentence
“Scrubbing the toilets in the bar at the end of a Saturday night is an odious task.”
“You told a lie, an odious damned lie: / Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!”
“I own no crime, unless it be a crime to've hindered you from perpetrating that which would have made you odious to mankind, at least the fairest half.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Deeply hateful”6 letters
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