odiously

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
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13
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8

Definition of odiously

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In an odious manner.
    “some odiously incestuous marriages, which, even by the relation of our diurnalists, have, by this means, found a damnable passage, to the great dishonour of God and shame of the Church.”
    “He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick!”
    “Her phrases, so bald and few, constantly repeated, showed the emptiness of her mind; he recalled her vulgar little laugh at the jokes of the musical comedy; and he remembered the little finger carefully extended when she held her glass to her mouth; her manners, like her conversation, were odiously genteel.”

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Etymology

From odious + -ly.

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