odiouslyadv.
/ˈəʊdɪəsli/, U.S. /ˈoʊdiəsli/ In an odious manner; so as to excite hatred or repugnance.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adverb]
loathlya1000
loathsomelya1400
hatefullyc1425
heinouslyc1440
abominably1447
ugsomelyc1450
odiouslya1500
detestably1531
abominationly1592
obscenely1598
repellingly1811
repellently1812
nauseatingly1815
obnoxiously1828
sickeningly1839
rebarbatively1934
a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum 1117 in Poems (1899) 93 The malice of evil men Rebellith And makithe theime to lyve odiously.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 30v So charitie is broken by odiousely brawlyng together.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vii. 265 If victory for vs do stand By slaughter, and by bloudy hand, The peoples hearts it will agrise, And odiously my name misprise.
1675 A. Marvell Let. 24 July in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 343 No Men were ever grown so odiously ridiculous [as the bishops were].
1724 J. Swift Drapier's Let. VII in Wks. (1735) IV. 238 Wood..goes about with Sacks-full of Dross; odiously misrepresenting his Prince's Countenance.
1799 M. Hays Victim of Prejudice II. vii. 139 ‘What is the matter with my charming girl?’ said he, in a voice odiously whining and affected.
1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian II. iv. 241 Some in my case, and feeling as I do, would odiously affect indifference and tranquillity and all that.
1885 J. H. McCarthy Camiola xxxii He was becoming dangerously, odiously complimentary.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lvii. 294 Her manners like her conversation, were odiously genteel.
1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 20/1 A time dominated by..odiously goateed Black Sabbath sound-a-likes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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