All 6 Uses
odious
in
The American, by Henry James
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- You have been odiously successful.†
Chpt 3 *odiously = in a manner that is extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- M. de Cintre was sixty years old, and an odious old gentleman.†
Chpt 8odious = extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- It would be quite odious for me to come talking to you as if I could patronize you.†
Chpt 8
- "I think it is odious!" said Mrs. Tristram.†
Chpt 14
- Madame de Cintre blushed a little and seemed to say that if begging his pardon in words was impudent, she might at least thus mutely express her perfect comprehension of his finding her conduct odious.†
Chpt 20
- She seemed an odious blot upon the face of nature; he wanted to put her out of his sight.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(odious) extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)