Associations to the word «Odious»

Wiktionary

ODIOUS, adjective. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
ODIOUS DEBT, noun. (international law) The national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation, and thus considered to be a personal debt of the regime and not a debt of the state.
ODIOUS DEBTS, noun. Plural of odious debt

Dictionary definition

ODIOUS, adjective. Unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin