Crossword clues for odiously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Odious \O"di*ous\, a. [L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F. odieux. See Odium.]
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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.
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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. [1913 Webster] -- O"di*ous`ly. adv. -- O"di*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an odious manner.
WordNet
adv. in an offensive and hateful manner; "I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably" [syn: detestably, repulsively, abominably]
Usage examples of "odiously".
Like Mrs Floore, he felt that to elope in anything less than a chaise-and-four was odiously shabby, but there was no help for it.
The boys call him Old Prosy, which is odiously ungrateful of them, butwell, you see?
Botanic Gardens, and I not having the least notion that you cared a rap for all those odiously rare plants!
Robert is quite odiously wealthy, and if ever he marries, which I begin to doubt, it will not be for a fortune, I can assure you!
Thus the months glided rapidly and serenely away, and he was positively happy in a mode of life that he once would have characterized as odiously humdrum.
It is too rarely that we see it, and as it dies out and gives place to the odiously convenient pump, with the last patent on its cast-iron uninterestingness, does it not seem as if the farmyard aspect had lost half its attraction?
Through the skylight overhead he heard Mowett say 'I love to linger near the leafless wood, Where cold and shrill the blasts of winter blow,' and for some reason this brought a picture of last night's moon before his eye no longer the sickle of Bairam, but an odiously thick slice of melon in the sky, a fat moon that must shine on the galley well advanced in her voyage to Mubara.
They might appear to be alone in the world, but you could depend upon it that as soon as the mischief was done some odiously respectable relative would come to light, which meant the devil to pay, and no pitch hot.
Heidegger is well aware that language consists in giving orders, but he odiously idealizes the whole process of command and obedience.
Jack was not going to be outdone by this sort of thing, and since he could not think of any reason that was not grossly plagiaristic for failing to produce a pair of pistols of his own, he said, with an odiously curling lip: 'Strange that I should not have been permitted to see Mr Crawley's weapons!
Chris could not hear his own city calling, but after only a few minutes-for they were quite close to Argus Three now-the test pattern on the other screen vanished, and Chris saw an odiously familiar face.