Odious

 WORD OF THE DAY

odious / adjective / OH-dee-us

Definition
1: arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance
2: hateful 

Examples
"There are probably few things more emotion-laden and odious as taxes. But for a society to function for the common good, they are a necessary evil."
— William P. Cawley, The Richmond (Virginia) Times Dispatch, 15 Sept. 2021

He learned an important lesson some years ago in Panama. Manuel Antonio Noriega was too odious even for Carter, who shunned the Panamanian strongman in the run-up to the 1989 ballot there.
— Jim Wooten, New York Times Magazine, 29 Jan 1995

Did You Know?
Odious has been with us since the days of Middle English. We borrowed it from Anglo-French, which in turn had taken it from Latin odiosus.
The Latin adjective came from the noun odium, meaning "hatred."
Odium is also an ancestor of the English verb annoy (another word that came to Middle English via Anglo-French).
And, at the beginning of the 17th century, odium entered English in its unaltered form, giving us a noun meaning "hatred" or "disgrace" (as in "ideas that have incurred much odium").