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odious
Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
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You told a lie, an odious damned lie: / Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!
He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
He always detested the trade, and it was only necessity, and the offer of his motherβs brother, a London apothecary of low family, into which Pendennisβs father had demeaned himself by marrying, that forced John Pendennis into so odious a calling.
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