odium

[US]/ˈəʊdiəm/
[UK]/ˈoʊdiəm/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. hatred, disgust

Real-world Examples

The author's greatest odium, though, is directed at meritocracy.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Never before or after did the names Republican and Scallawag carry such odium, for now the corruption of the Carpet bag regime was at its height.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Fortunately for him, Jackson escaped the odium of a disastrous panic which struck the country with terrible force in the following summer.

Source: American history

Say not that such questions are an insult to common sense for it is your own conduct, O ye foolish women! which throws an odium on your sex!

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

No trade deserves more the full protection of the law, and no trade requires it so much; because no trade is so much exposed to popular odium.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Three)

The popular odium, however, which attends it in years of scarcity, the only years in which it can be very profitable, renders people of character and fortune averse to enter into it.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Three)

The Republicans left no stone unturned in their efforts to place on the Federalist candidate, President Adams, all the odium of the Alien and Sedition laws, in addition to responsibility for approving Hamilton's measures and policies.

Source: American history

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