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Odious
Odious O"di*ous, a. [L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F. odieux. See Odium.] 1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice. ``All wickedness will be most odious.' --Sprat. He rendered himself odious to the Parliament. --Clarendon. 2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. --Milton. The odious side of that polity. --Macaulay. Syn: Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome; invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular. -- O"di*ous`ly. adv. -- O"di*ous*ness, n.

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- In international law, odious debt, also known as illegitimate debt, is a legal theory that says that the national debt incurred by a despotic regime should...
- theory, an odious number is a positive integer that has an odd number of 1s in its binary expansion. Nonnegative integers that are not odious are called...
- "Treason must be made odious" was the most common shorthand rendering of a stump speech (a standardized campaign speech repeatedly made by a politician...
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- the Thue–Morse set. Non-negative integers that are not evil are called odious numbers. The first evil numbers are: 0, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18,...
- Ackman's campaign against Harvard, calling the billionaire investor an 'odious' oligarch". Business Insider. Sholom Schreiber (April 25, 2005). "Jewish...
- 6 June 1983) is an English actor and writer, best known for playing the odious vicar Ossie Whitworth in the third and fourth series of the BBC hit period...
- Malyuta Skuratov (Малюта Скуратов) (? – January 1, 1573) was one of the most odious leaders of the Oprichnina during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Malyuta...
- generic name comes from Ancient Gr**** ἀηδής (aēdēs), meaning 'unpleasant' or 'odious'. The type species for Aedes is Aedes cinereus. The genus was named by Johann...
- number that has an even number of 1's in its binary representation, and an odious number is a number that has an odd number of 1's in its binary representation;...