odious• He is the son of a man whose values are odious.• The taking of hostages is an odiouscrime.• Are such truths inherently odious or destructive?• And in this respect we are not able to see that these privileges are especially odious or objectionable.• The odiouspair are simultaneously cajoling and menacing: Ferdinand must remake himself in their image, or else.• Virginia closed her eyes for a second, fighting this odiousrevelation.• Where had the odioussenior, Boden, gone, somewhere among those broken, enfolding walls?• the odioustask of scrubbing floors
Originodious
(1300-1400)Old Frenchodieus, from Latinodiosus, from odium“hate”