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单词 odium
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Definition of odium in English:

odium

noun ˈəʊdɪəmˈoʊdiəm
mass noun
  • General or widespread hatred or disgust incurred by someone as a result of their actions.

    he incurred widespread odium for military failures and government corruption
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Stalin's military and political dispositions once the war started have incurred odium.
    • He concluded: ‘I am sorry if you are genuinely unaware of the public odium against your company in the West of London.’
    • While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy.
    • She needs to accumulate much more odium before she'll qualify for the UN job.
    • By the same token, ‘the later we postponed publication, the less would the inevitable odium react upon the British’.
    • I didn't feel the normal odium I hold for dresses and skirts when Rosemary made me try it on; it was quite an exquisite dress, really.
    • Things would not end with Rebecca's prejudice and odium.
    • No, my odium for him spans much further into the past.
    • For some inexplicable reason, I found that my odium for a certain Coach Rams significantly outweighs my detestation of Damien Rose.
    • The odium is either gone or all over pervasive, and the township revolts are assuming an endemic scale and nature reminiscent of 20 years ago.
    • Pursing her lips together Kyle stormed off her odium for him increasing with every living day.
    • That is the sort of thing which, if permitted, brings the administration of justice into odium.
    • For this I can reasonably expect the eternal odium of the architectural profession, but this revelation must proceed despite the personal cost to myself.
    • It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so.
    • Damien did a magnificent job of revealing his utmost contempt for Richard; so magnificent that his odium for him could almost be smelt.
    • But Putin is clearly signed up to the coalition, insisting the odium of international terrorism had to be ‘neutralised’.
    Synonyms
    disgust, abhorrence, repugnance, revulsion, repulsion, loathing, detestation, hatred, hate, execration, obloquy, dislike, disapproval, disapprobation, distaste, disfavour, aversion, antipathy, animosity, animus, enmity, hostility, contempt, censure, condemnation
    disgrace, shame, opprobrium, discredit, dishonour, disrepute, ill repute, infamy, notoriety, ignominy, stigma, loss of face, humiliation, unpopularity
    rare disesteem, reprobation

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin, 'hatred', from the verb stem od- 'hate'.

Rhymes

odeum, plasmodium, podium, sodium
 
 

Definition of odium in US English:

odium

nounˈoʊdiəmˈōdēəm
  • General or widespread hatred or disgust directed toward someone as a result of their actions.

    his job had made him the target of public hostility and odium
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Stalin's military and political dispositions once the war started have incurred odium.
    • Pursing her lips together Kyle stormed off her odium for him increasing with every living day.
    • Things would not end with Rebecca's prejudice and odium.
    • For this I can reasonably expect the eternal odium of the architectural profession, but this revelation must proceed despite the personal cost to myself.
    • Damien did a magnificent job of revealing his utmost contempt for Richard; so magnificent that his odium for him could almost be smelt.
    • That is the sort of thing which, if permitted, brings the administration of justice into odium.
    • No, my odium for him spans much further into the past.
    • By the same token, ‘the later we postponed publication, the less would the inevitable odium react upon the British’.
    • The odium is either gone or all over pervasive, and the township revolts are assuming an endemic scale and nature reminiscent of 20 years ago.
    • It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so.
    • But Putin is clearly signed up to the coalition, insisting the odium of international terrorism had to be ‘neutralised’.
    • While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy.
    • For some inexplicable reason, I found that my odium for a certain Coach Rams significantly outweighs my detestation of Damien Rose.
    • I didn't feel the normal odium I hold for dresses and skirts when Rosemary made me try it on; it was quite an exquisite dress, really.
    • She needs to accumulate much more odium before she'll qualify for the UN job.
    • He concluded: ‘I am sorry if you are genuinely unaware of the public odium against your company in the West of London.’
    Synonyms
    disgust, abhorrence, repugnance, revulsion, repulsion, loathing, detestation, hatred, hate, execration, obloquy, dislike, disapproval, disapprobation, distaste, disfavour, aversion, antipathy, animosity, animus, enmity, hostility, contempt, censure, condemnation

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin, ‘hatred’, from the verb stem od- ‘hate’.

 
 
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