odious

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

O'DIOUS, adjective [Latin odiosus, from odi, I hated, Eng. hate.] 1. Hateful; deserving hatred. It expresses something less than detestable and abominable; as an odious name; odious vice. All wickedness is odious 2. Offensive to the senses; disgusting; as an odious sight; an odious smell. 3. Causing hate; invidious; as, to utter odious truth. 4. Exposed to hatred. He rendered himself odious to the parliament.
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