odium
IPA: ˈoʊdiʌm
noun
- Hatred; dislike.
- The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
Examples of "odium" in Sentences
- She is free from odium and animosity.
- Well you haven't done a very good job of hiding your odium.
- It is noticeable that the Queen held him in particular odium.
- "P. Joannes Ogilbeus, SJ Scotus Glasguae in odium fidei suspendio"
- At the risk of more odium being heaped on me, I will put that right.
- He shared the popular odium which Philip incurred by debasing the coinage.
- There is no reason to think he had excited any great or lasting odium at Athens.
- Philip, happily for himself, was spared the odium of having reduced them to this abject condition.
- This circumstantial and apparently truthful statement has brought no small odium on the fair narrator.
- This government, discredited on account of its external showing, cared not to assume the odium of an energetic repression.
- As a matter of fact, so far from being hanged or incurring any kind of odium, his system is quite the most popular there is at present.
- These functionaries were not slow in obeying commands, which released them from so much of the odium that attached to their ungrateful office.
- That the term "old maid" has lost its odium is due to the fact that unmarried women have made a place for themselves in the world of business.
- Villain_ once had none of the odium which is now associated with the term; but it signified one who, under the feudal system, rented or held lands of another.
- The religious hatred called odium theologicum has long been an instrument for gaining power and property, whether in local politics or in real estate speculation.
- Bankers have never been popular, but Washington's rejection of the $700bn bail-out for banks on Monday recalled the odium that attached to them in the Great Depression.
- It is wise, too, in relation to the civilized world around us, to avoid giving occasion to the odium which is so industriously excited against ourselves and our institutions.
- The difficulty of this office arises out of the odium which is attached to it; no one will undertake it unless great profits are to be made, and any one who does is loath to execute the law.
- Thirdly, and lastly, we have never been able to hear any one fact established which could prove Lord Byron to deserve anything like the degree or even kind of odium which has, in regard to matters of this class, been heaped upon his name.
- Congress and the President is to go on, as I suppose it is, Stanton should be ignored by the President, left to perform his clerical duties which the law requires him to perform, and let the party bear the odium which is already upon them for placing him where he is.