odi·ous /ˈodiəs/
(a.)可憎的,可厭的,醜惡的
O·di·ous a.
1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice. “All wickedness will be most odious.”
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.
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.
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odious
adj : unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[syn: abominable, detestable, execrable]