Definition of Odious

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Odious

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

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

Related Definitions:

An, As, Causing, Deserving, Disagreeable, Disgust, Hateful, Hatred, Name, Odious, Offensive, Or, Provoking, Receiving, Repugnance, Repulsive, Sight, Smell, System, Vice

Odious Quotations

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf

I think comparisons are odious.
John Madden

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.
Thomas Szasz

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

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Samuel Richardson

None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.
William Scranton

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.
James Otis

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.
Frank Miller

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.
Daniel H. Hill

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.
Harlan Stone

Odious Translations

odious in French is odieux
odious in Italian is odioso
odious in Spanish is odioso

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