ODIOUSLY Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

odiously

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as in vilely

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The 1970s were thick with New Age spiritual fads and movements, from the benign (crystals) to the unspeakably toxic and cultic (Jonestown).

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
The Avs became a group of falling stars, going splat and getting swept by the Golden Knights in an unspeakably awful series.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 May 2026

Definition of unspeakably

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Within this literature, no decade is more doom-laden than the nineteen-thirties, when misguided hope and willful blindness led the world’s democracies to grossly underestimate the threat of Fascism.

— Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Oates, 75, was responsible for the 2024 incident in Granite Bay, but not cited or found to be grossly negligent, records show.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of grossly

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Internal pressure gave the missile its structural rigidity, meaning the vehicle could buckle if insufficiently pressurized.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
Or… 2) Miami is insufficiently impressed and spends its likely very high 2027 first-round draft pick on a QB with the clear intent for the rookie to soon replace Willis.

— Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of insufficiently

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Time, not thriftily spent but flagrantly wasted at cards or the wheel, is brought to a standstill right at the moment of its greatest potentiality—this would have to be the ultimate payoff.

— Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026
The figure’s legs in Moving My Chair (2019) are nearly twice the length of her torso, and here as in nearly every foot McNeely painted, toes are flagrantly flexed.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of flagrantly

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The court ruled that assigning an egregiously high bail, despite a defendant’s income declaration, was just a way of detaining them.

— Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Some members of the conservative majority have, on occasion, exhibited a willingness to stand up to Trump’s most egregiously unlawful actions.

— Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 June 2026

Definition of egregiously

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