odious
adjective
1.
- “abominable treatment of prisoners”
- “detestable vices”
- “execrable crimes”
- “consequences odious to those you govern” Edmund Burke
Origin
From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odiōsus, from odium (“hate”).
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