odious
part of speech
adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Odious means very unpleasant, hateful, so that people cannot bear it. tree →
2) Odious describes a person who is spiteful and unkind. tree →
sense in the lessons
in stories an odious character is a cruel or spiteful person, such as a jealous stepmother or stepsister; the reader is meant to dislike them
examples
- For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. (Writings PRO.30.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also had made himself odious with the Philistines. (Prophets 1SA.13.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- The odious stepsisters laughed at Cinderella. tree →
- His rude remarks were odious. tree →
- The queen's odious plan hurt many people. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «odious» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.