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Definition of Odiously
1. Adverb. In an offensive and hateful manner. "I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably"
Partainyms: Abominable, Detestable, Odious, Repulsive
Definition of Odiously
1. Adverb. In an odious manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Odiously
1. odious [adv] - See also: odious
Lexicographical Neighbors of Odiously
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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