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

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The agency was a pseudo-governmental commission with no legal authority, staffed by grossly unqualified appointees, including a teenage programmer known as Big Balls.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
Using that study to characterize who holds the most influential jobs in sports media is grossly misleading.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of grossly

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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
Especially exciting to him was the German student movement, which combined support for liberation across the non-Western world with attacks on what the students considered the suffocating (and still insufficiently de-Nazified) Federal Republic.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of insufficiently

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White and Engelbert quickly acted to condemn online trolling, but stayed mostly quiet about the actual incident on the court where Thomas flagrantly fouled Clark.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026
Now, there are good reasons for this inevitability to get kicked down the road, specifically for JoAnne, who doesn’t trust Duncan and doesn’t want to break the law, at least not so flagrantly.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Apr. 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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