Both Uses
odious
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
(Edited)
- "It should be Christmas Day, I am sure," said she, "on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge."
p. 75.1 *odious = extremely unpleasant and dislikable
- But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious.
p. 105.4odious = unpleasant or dislikable
Definitions:
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(1)
(odious) extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)