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Recent Examples of odium Pashinyan had led the movement to oust Moscow’s influence in Armenia; he was now saddled with the odium of losing Karabakh on his watch. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 By making such statements with actual malice to the public and also through social media, each of the defendants knew or should have known that their comments would be widely disseminated, exposing Judge Moore to disgrace, ridicule, odium and contempt resulting in compensatory and punitive damages. Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 29 Nov. 2022 This season will only add to the odium. Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2022 By heaping odium on Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, one of several prominent opposition figures, the government gave a divided opposition a leader to unite around. Christopher De Bellaigue, The New York Review of Books, 13 Oct. 2022 The Buccaneers were the team willing to absorb the odium of signing Brown in 2020 after a series of incidents that transformed one of the most talented wide receivers in the NFL into someone that most teams thought wasn’t worth the risk because of his behavior. Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022 In addition, the odium among the Left is so pernicious and so ubiquitous that the surveyors themselves may pollute the very taking of polls. Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for odium
Noun
  • There was no disgrace in his failure to force a spot ahead of Dominik Szoboszlai or Curtis Jones in the pecking order of attacking midfielders.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Statements in Tallahassee and Tampa Florida State opened the season receiving eight votes in the AP poll after last season’s 2-10 disgrace.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But people can get very emotional about money, experiencing feelings from scarcity and fear to greed, anxiety, shame, and guilt.
    Gabriel Shahin, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The shame falls on the person who betrayed me.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But the friendship fell apart earlier this year when Farage refused to echo Musk’s support for Robinson, the founder of the now-defunct anti-immigration English Defence League (EDL), who was previously jailed for being in contempt of court by repeating false accusations about a Syrian refugee.
    Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • My dream of becoming a woman was exchanged for a different fantasy, a kind of eternal world of teen-agers, who had nothing but contempt for adults.
    Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The opprobrium would be too loud.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Proliferators, including democracies, may be willing to accept the eventual international opprobrium that comes with violating or withdrawing from nonproliferation accords in the name of national security.
    VIPIN NARANG, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Staunch pride and a tendency to humiliation are closely aligned in Leonora.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This Is Spinal Tap was an almost-clinical study in anticlimax, in rock-and-roll humiliation.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sometime this week – or next week, at the latest – Riley Greene will end the latest era of ignominy for the Detroit Tigers.
    Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Odenkirk and Zulevic’s take on the history is more of a lighthearted fun teen romp and a showcase of shock jock Steve Dahl on a wild and unexpected summer night, rather than the ignominy that the night would come to represent to some.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Future problems Paxton’s ability to brush aside opprobrium and obloquy in Texas politics is nearly unrivaled.
    Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • That’s a shame, because the airline’s 11 outside directors are arguably the guiltiest of the guilty parties in the company’s recent fiasco, the most deserving of obloquy.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023

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“Odium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/odium. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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