0 extremely unpleasant and causing or deserving hate:
an odious crime
an odious little man
1 extremely unpleasant; causing and deserving hate:
In reviews, odious comparisons are sometimes drawn between the book under review and others whose worth is known.
Each of them is critical of the tendency of law to skew history or legitimise odious structures of authority.
One of the most odious consequences has been a decrease in the time available for teaching and mentoring students and residents.
They had to see that what seemed self-evidently glorious and right to them might be morally odious to others.
This belief, however, commits one to accept a morally odious transference of sins and flaws from parents to children and further descendants.
First, it is morally odious for children to be expected to carry their parents' debts or sins, since children had no role in acquiring such debts and sins.
As the emerging discourse on ' odious debt ' suggests, the incentives of both the borrower and the lender need to change if this development problem is going to be solved.
If the argument and strife are brought to a person's home, it is rather odious.