odiously

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adverb

In an odious manner.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adverbodiously (comparative more odiously, superlative most odiously)

comparative more odiously · superlative most odiously

  1. In an odious manner.

    He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick!

    1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)
    2 more examples

    some odiously incestuous marriages, which, even by the relation of our diurnalists, have, by this means, found a damnable passage, to the great dishonour of God and shame of the Church.

    1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience

    Her phrases, so bald and few, constantly repeated, showed the emptiness of her mind; he recalled her vulgar little laugh at the jokes of the musical comedy; and he remembered the little finger carefully extended when she held her glass to her mouth; her manners, like her conversation, were odiously genteel.

    1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin an offensive and hateful manner

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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