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Odiousness

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. [1913 Webster] -- O"di*ous`ly. adv. -- O"di*ous*ness, n.

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odiousness

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being odious 2 (context countable English) An odious thing

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odiousness

n. the quality of being offensive [syn: offensiveness, distastefulness]

Usage examples of "odiousness".

There are unquestionably thousands of married women whose experience is made a living martyrdom by the infidelity, the tyranny, the coarseness, the general odiousness and wearisomeness of their husbands.

But on the odiousness of employing the wild Indians against a Christian people, the views of the whole of the opposition orators coincided.