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# odious

«odious» in Mova's school dictionary: **very unpleasant, hateful, so that people cannot bear it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Odious means very unpleasant, hateful, so that people cannot bear it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odious/#m1)

2) Odious describes a person who is spiteful and unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odious/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories an odious character is a cruel or spiteful person, such as a jealous stepmother or stepsister; the reader is meant to dislike them

### examples

- The odious stepsisters laughed at Cinderella. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odious/#x1)
- His rude remarks were odious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odious/#x2)
- The queen's odious plan hurt many people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.887/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «odious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.