Synonyms for odious
ˈoʊ di əsodi·ous

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1. odiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hated, unsavory, reviled, detestable

2. odiousadjective

   Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

   Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.

   Synonyms:
   reviled, unsavory, hated, detestable

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1. odious

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

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1. odious

   Synonyms:
   hateful, offensive, detestable, abominable

   Antonyms:
   delectable, grateful, acceptable, pleasant

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1. abominable, detestable, execrable, odiousadjective

   unequivocally detestable

   "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

   Synonyms:
   repugnant, detestable, terrible, miserable, painful, abominable, unspeakable, awful, atrocious, dreadful, woeful, repulsive, wretched, damnable, obscene, execrable, deplorable, abhorrent

   Antonyms:
   lovable, loveable

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1. odiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, shocking, disgusting, offensive, repulsive, obnoxious

2. odiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   invidious

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1. odiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   detestable, abominable, execrable, offensive, repulsive, hateful, loathsome

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1. List of paraphrases for "odious":

   heinous, abhorrent, hateful, loathsome, despicable, abominable, obnoxious, repugnant, detestable, invidious, hideous, appalling, repulsive, horrendous, vile, atrocious, disgusting, dastardly, horrific

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How to use odious in a sentence?

1. Saadi Shirazi:

   Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive.

2. Yayi Boni:

   The discussions we have had with him reassure us, we are going to put an end to this odious phenomenon ... This summit will be decisive.

3. Charles Lamb:

   A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

4. Mario Savio:

   Theres a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious - makes you so sick at heart that you cant take part, you cant even passively take part. And you got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and youve got to make it stop. And youve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless youre free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

5. Vicomte de Chateaubriand:

   You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.