Synonyms for odious
ˈoʊ di əsodi·ous

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1. odiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hated, unsavory, reviled, detestable

2. odiousadjective

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

   Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.

   Synonyms:
   reviled, unsavory, hated, detestable

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1. odious

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

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1. odious

   Synonyms:
   hateful, offensive, detestable, abominable

   Antonyms:
   delectable, grateful, acceptable, pleasant

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1. abominable, detestable, execrable, odiousadjective

   unequivocally detestable

   "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

   Synonyms:
   repugnant, detestable, terrible, miserable, painful, abominable, unspeakable, awful, atrocious, dreadful, woeful, repulsive, wretched, damnable, obscene, execrable, deplorable, abhorrent

   Antonyms:
   lovable, loveable

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1. odiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, shocking, disgusting, offensive, repulsive, obnoxious

2. odiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   invidious

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1. odiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   detestable, abominable, execrable, offensive, repulsive, hateful, loathsome

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1. List of paraphrases for "odious":

   heinous, abhorrent, hateful, loathsome, despicable, abominable, obnoxious, repugnant, detestable, invidious, hideous, appalling, repulsive, horrendous, vile, atrocious, disgusting, dastardly, horrific

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How to use odious in a sentence?

1. Andrew Cuomo:

   The hateful activities at Syracuse University are most disturbing, not only to the Syracuse University community, but to the greater community of New York, they have no been handled in a manner that reflects this states aggressive opposition to such odious, reckless, and reprehensible behavior. That these actions should happen on the campus of a leading New York university makes this situation even worse.

2. The Telegraph:

   Oh Allah, destroy the odious Christians. Oh Allah Kill them all.

3. Mario Savio:

   Theres a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious - makes you so sick at heart that you cant take part, you cant even passively take part. And you got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and youve got to make it stop. And youve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless youre free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

4. Lauren Robel:

   I thought that his views were vile, I thought they were odious, and I thought they clearly didn't reflect the views, I think, of most sensible people.

5. Chateaubriand:

   One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.