Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: odious
IPA transcription: ['oʊdiəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: abominable, detestable, execrable, odious
    Meaning: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
Usage examples
  • As odious as it is absurd
  • The government was indeed justly odious.
  • The sight of Miss Lucas was odious to her.
  • The very thought of them is odious and low.
  • Such a ceremony would be odious and monstrous; she tried to shut her eyes to it meanwhile.
  • No mosquitoes, no passports, no--goodness gracious, child, don't let that odious man bang about my hat-box!
  • I believe you care more for that odious vulgar woman down-stairs than you do for anybody else in the world."
  • But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious.
  • She turned sick at herself, and would gladly have been put out of existence, but for three days the odious companionship went on.
  • All at once, the creature began to smile, but with such an odious, self-satisfied expression, that Agnes felt ashamed of seeing her.