The Only Use of
odious
in
The Scarlet Letter
- His gestures, his gait, his grizzled beard, his slightest and most indifferent acts, the very fashion of his garments, were odious in the clergyman's sight; a token implicitly to be relied on of a deeper antipathy in the breast of the latter than he was willing to acknowledge to himself.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(odious) extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate