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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Odious  \O"di*ous\,  a.  [L.  odiosus,  from  odium  hatred:  cf  F. 
  odieux  See  {Odium}.] 
  1.  Hateful;  deserving  or  receiving  hatred;  as  an  odious 
  name  system,  vice.  ``All  wickedness  will  be  most 
  odious.''  --Sprat. 
 
  He  rendered  himself  odious  to  the  Parliament. 
  --Clarendon. 
 
  2.  Causing  or  provoking  hatred,  repugnance,  or  disgust; 
  offensive;  disagreeable;  repulsive;  as  an  odious  sight; 
  an  odious  smell.  --Milton. 
 
  The  odious  side  of  that  polity.  --Macaulay. 
 
  Syn:  Hateful;  detestable;  abominable;  disgusting;  loathsome; 
  invidious;  repulsive;  forbidding;  unpopular.  -- 
  {O"di*ous`ly}.  adv  --  {O"di*ous*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  odious 
  adj  :  unequivocally  detestable;  "abominable  treatment  of 
  prisoners";  "detestable  vices";  "execrable  crimes"; 
  "consequences  odious  to  those  you  govern"-  Edmund  Burke 
  [syn:  {abominable},  {detestable},  {execrable}]




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