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extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- The Latin tongue is hardly understood, Syriac is unknown, Greek so odious that 'tis accounted no ignorance in the most learned to skip a Greek word without reading it, and to say, '~Groecum est non legitur~.'2.7.4 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 4 — ANARKH (69% in)
- He continued his flight as long as he could see, when he turned round, the turreted enclosure of the University, and the rare houses of the suburb; but, when, at length, a rise of ground had completely concealed from him that odious Paris, when he could believe himself to be a hundred leagues distant from it, in the fields, in the desert, he halted, and it seemed to him that he breathed more freely.2.9.1 — Vol 2 Bk 9 Chpt 1 — Delirium (6% in)
- Oh! the foul, odious monk! leave me!2.11.1 — Vol 2 Bk 11 Chpt 1 — The Little Shoe (40% in)
- The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the odious edifice was hollow.2.11.4 — Vol 2 Bk 11 Chpt 4 — The Marriage of Quasimodo (54% in)
There are no more uses of "odious" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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