Definition of Odiously

1. Adverb. In an offensive and hateful manner. "I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably"


Definition of Odiously

1. Adverb. In an odious manner. ¹

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Definition of Odiously

1. odious [adv] - See also: odious

Lexicographical Neighbors of Odiously

odeons
odes
odeum
odeums
odible
odic
odically
odiferous
odiferously
odiferousness
odin
odinism
odinite
odintsovite
odious
odiously (current term)
odiousness
odiousnesses
odism
odisms
odist
odists
odium
odium generis humani
odium theologicum
odiums
odize
odized
odizes
odizing

Literary usage of Odiously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The life of Edward earl of Clarendon, written by himself. [on large paper by Edward Hyde (1857)
"those odious crimes which had been so odiously laid to his charge. And that being his end, he might be excused if he did so far enlarge upon all particulars ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Of course, there are the usual types, which are becoming in Russian literature a tradition comparable to the Commedia dell 'Arte characters: an odiously ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"... at the girl in black, and thought I had never seen so odiously plain and vulgar a creature ! And *as h possible he could have made such a choice ? ..."

4. Lectures on the French Revolution by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (1920)
"It forced men to conclude that authority was odiously stupid and still more odiously ferocious, that existing governments were accursed, that the guardians ..."

5. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"Obtrude] [odiously (6) to acquire, achieve ; if answerable style 1 can obtain ... odiously, ailc. (a) hatefully : SA 873. (ft) disgustingly : Ariosto n. 2. ..."

6. The Blue Laws of New Haven Colony: Usually Called Blue Laws of Connecticut by Royal Ralph Hinman (1838)
"The circumcised Jew was odiously unpopular to the whole Gentile world, and Christians, as long as they maintained the circumcision of Christ, supported no ..."

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