Thesaurus / odious
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During the Civil War, the enslaved were given an especially odious job.
FACES OF THE DEAD EMERGE FROM LOST AFRICAN AMERICAN GRAVEYARDMICHAEL RUANEJULY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTTrading cryptocurrency for a catalog of weird digital assets—from tweets,YouTube videos, odious sound clips, virtual sofas, renderings of luxury bags, or even news articles—can read like a prank.
THE BANANA-EATING ARTIST FROM ART BASEL SAYS THE NFT BOOM IS A BLESSINGANNE QUITOAPRIL 30, 2021QUARTZSecretary of State Daniel Webster rejected Huselmann’s attempt to “give this odious name and character to a confidential agent of a neutral Power, bearing the commission of his country, and sent for a purpose fully warranted by the law of nations.”
MIXING DIPLOMACY AND SPYING WOULD BE POOR STRATEGY FOR U.S.JEFF ROGGFEBRUARY 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThere is no competitive advantage to making your customers’ waiting time any less odious, or making their access to real people any easier, because your competitors are doing the same awful thing you are.
GENE WEINGARTEN: YOUR CALL IS UNIMPORTANT TO USGENE WEINGARTENJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt is, in this way, precisely not like the fantasies that animate American national life, and that propel odious politicians to power, and that raise the stakes of political engagement for everyone.
DELUSIONS, JUSTICE, ACCOUNTABILITY AND FREEDOM IN AMERICAPAUL TAYLORDECEMBER 18, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt was during his reign that the fatal massacre of St. Bartholomews took place, which renders his name odious.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLHe was also the victim of a particularly odious witticism while living here.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPER"You are singularly concerned in this man's life," said he, an odious undercurrent of meaning in his voice.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIAnd they told the king that Jonathan had done these things, to make him odious: but the king held his peace.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSHe is not the only man who makes such wretched estimations or such odious comparisons; the world is full of Euthyphrons.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREWORDS RELATED TO ODIOUS
- abominable
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awful
- beastly
- beyond words
- calamitous
- defying description
- description
- detestable
- dire
- disgusting
- dreadful
- evil
- execrable
- fearful
- frightening
- frightful
- heinous
- horrible
- horrid
- incommunicable
- inconceivable
- indefinable
- indescribable
- ineffable
- inexpressible
- inhuman
- loathsome
- monstrous
- nameless
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- outrageous
- overwhelming
- preternatural
- repellent
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- shocking
- unbelievable
- unimaginable
- unutterable
- abominable
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awful
- beastly
- beyond words
- calamitous
- detestable
- dire
- disgusting
- dreadful
- evil
- execrable
- fearful
- frightening
- frightful
- heinous
- horrible
- horrid
- incommunicable
- inconceivable
- indefinable
- indescribable
- ineffable
- inexpressible
- inhuman
- loathsome
- monstrous
- nameless
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- outrageous
- overwhelming
- preternatural
- repellent
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- shocking
- unbelievable
- unimaginable
- unutterable
- abominable
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awful
- beastly
- beyond words
- calamitous
- defying description
- description
- detestable
- dire
- disgusting
- dreadful
- evil
- execrable
- fearful
- frightening
- frightful
- heinous
- horrible
- horrid
- incommunicable
- inconceivable
- indefinable
- indescribable
- ineffable
- inexpressible
- inhuman
- loathsome
- monstrous
- nameless
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- outrageous
- overwhelming
- preternatural
- repellent
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- shocking
- unbelievable
- undescribable
- unimaginable
- X-rated
- base
- blue
- boorish
- cheap
- coarse
- common
- contemptible
- crude
- dirty
- disgusting
- dishonorable
- filthy
- fractious
- gross
- hard-core
- ignoble
- impolite
- improper
- indecent
- indecorous
- indelicate
- inferior
- low
- malicious
- nasty
- naughty
- obscene
- odious
- off-color
- profane
- raw
- repulsive
- ribald
- risqué
- rough
- scatological
- slippery
- smutty
- sneaking
- soft-core
- sordid
- suggestive
- tasteless
- tawdry
- uncouth
- unmannerly
- unrefined
- unworthy
- villainous
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.