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单词 odiously
释义
odiouso‧di‧ous /ˈəʊdiəs $ ˈoʊ-/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINodious
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French odieus, from Latin odiosus, from odium ‘hate’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • the odious task of scrubbing floors
  • The taking of hostages is an odious crime.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And in this respect we are not able to see that these privileges are especially odious or objectionable.
  • Are such truths inherently odious or destructive?
  • He is the son of a man whose values are odious.
  • The odious pair are simultaneously cajoling and menacing: Ferdinand must remake himself in their image, or else.
  • Virginia closed her eyes for a second, fighting this odious revelation.
  • Where had the odious senior, Boden, gone, somewhere among those broken, enfolding walls?
extremely unpleasant SYN  horrible:  an odious little manodiously adverb
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