All 7 Uses of
odious
in
Gone with the Wind
- Of all the people in the world to turn up here, this terrible person who had witnessed that scene with Ashley which still gave her nightmares; this odious wretch who ruined girls and was not received by nice people; this despicable man who had said, and with good cause, that she was not a lady.†
Chpt 2.9
- Sometimes he was odious.†
Chpt 3.19 *
- In fact, most of the time he was odious.†
Chpt 3.19
- Or had he only been leading up to another such odious proposal as he had made twice before?†
Chpt 4.34
- Atlanta might perhaps have been more tolerant toward the two if the news of their engagement had not come at a time when Rhett's Carpetbagger and Scallawag cronies were more odious in the sight of respectable citizens than they had ever been before.†
Chpt 4.47
- He was bad enough when he was a speculator during the war and making money out of our hunger but now that he is hand in glove with the Carpetbaggers and Scallawags and a friend—actually a friend of that odious wretch, Governor Bullock— Call, indeed!†
Chpt 5.49
- The ladies felt that he was odiously, unendurably vulgar.†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
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(odious) extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate