| 词汇 | odious |
| 释义 | odious adjective formaluk /ˈəʊ.di.əs/ us /ˈoʊ.di.əs/ extremely unpleasant and causing or deserving hate: 讨厌的；可恶的，可憎的 an odious crime可憎的罪行 an odious little man可恶透顶的小个子男人 Synonyms abominable detestableformal execrableformal Serious and unpleasant abominable abominably abysmal abysmally apocalyptic fraught frightful from hellidiom fun ghastliness not be all fun and gamesidiom noxiously objectionable objectionably odiously unpleasantness unpretty unspeakable unspeakably unsupportable odious | American Dictionaryodious adjective us/ˈoʊ·di·əs/ extremely unpleasant; causing and deserving hate: an odious person/task Examples of odiousodious In reviews, odious comparisons are sometimes drawn between the book under review and others whose worth is known. Each of them is critical of the tendency of law to skew history or legitimise odious structures of authority. One of the most odious consequences has been a decrease in the time available for teaching and mentoring students and residents. They had to see that what seemed self-evidently glorious and right to them might be morally odious to others. This belief, however, commits one to accept a morally odious transference of sins and flaws from parents to children and further descendants. First, it is morally odious for children to be expected to carry their parents' debts or sins, since children had no role in acquiring such debts and sins. As the emerging discourse on ' odious debt ' suggests, the incentives of both the borrower and the lender need to change if this development problem is going to be solved. If the argument and strife are brought to a person's home, it is rather odious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now know that it was a question of dealing not merely with a powerful military enemy, but with a vile and odious race. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not merely is it socially odious, but it is economically injurious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that while comparisons are odious—as they say in the report—one has to compare permanent secretaries' salaries with something. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why is the same attitude not taken to the odious toads who own this company? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Comparisons are always odious, but everybody must recognise that to be blind is a most terrible calamity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those comparisons are grotesque, odious and totally irrelevant, but they reveal the bankruptcy of those who try to defend their arrogant defiance of world opinion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One especially odious aspect of what we have been discussing this morning is the commercial exploitation by third parties of this activity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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