odious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   unequivocally detestable

   The law imposed an odious burden on the poor.

2. 2
   adj

   Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

   Scrubbing the toilets in the bar at the end of a Saturday night is an odious task.

From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odiōsus, from odium (“hate”).

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