odiously

Definition of odiouslynext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for odiously
Adverb
  • And finally… The death of seven PAOK supporters in a road accident last week was an unspeakably awful tragedy, and one that will hang over the club for a long time.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • But tackling the Navier-Stokes equations for fluids in three dimensions is unspeakably difficult, so mathematicians have started with easier versions of the problem.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • These fears are well-founded, as authorities have previously executed many protesters following grossly unfair trials, while many others remain on death row.
    Hamid Kashani, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Why do electric bikes have to be grossly expensive and overly inaccessible?
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2026
Adverb
  • These athletes run dozens of miles, generally in the heat, at altitude, or in bad weather, up and down mountains, all while attempting, sometimes miserably, to eat and drink enough to keep going.
    Dan England, Outside, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Brown then tried to ride the anti-tax, spending-limit movement into the White House two years later — but failed miserably.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • But the campaign against Good is different—because The Homeland takes particular and perverse interest in women deemed insufficiently reverent of hearth and home.
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
  • These rules would otherwise allow other countries to impose top-up taxes when profits are insufficiently taxed.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • This has become a flagrantly abusive practice.
    Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In the killing of Pretti, the authorities are now promising an internal probe that no one can possibly trust after DHS has spent months flagrantly violating the law and people’s civil and constitutional rights.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • There are significant worries that AI can readily go off the rails or otherwise dispense unsuitable or even egregiously inappropriate mental health advice.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Trump, of course, was rude, untruthful, and excessively, if not quite so egregiously, long-winded in his first term, too.
    Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Odiously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/odiously. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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