(n.) Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
(n.) The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It must therefore be assumed that onesided private financial support carries the odium of "private relief" for the recipients, in which case it would run contrary to the intentions of social legislation.
(2) The reality is that all organisations hate having their inner workings exposed, the more so if it incurs collective odium and risks jobs.
(3) They are therefore suffering both the odium of "higher fees" and the cost of what will be a higher level of subsidy.
(4) Moreover, it would be useful to free the diet from the odium of an annoying and unimportant supplementation to medicamentous diabetes therapy.
(5) Claims on social assistance, however, are not being deduced from preperformances (in a judical sense in regard of pensions) but are being derived from a diffuse claim on a social state incured with the odium of statutory relief for the necessitous.
(6) It’s hard to feel excited or even relieved, though, when her road to victory is so slick with the odium of Donald Trump .
(7) It simply does not stack up,” he said, pointing out the government had accepted the “public odium” of promising to abolish the schoolkids bonus before the election “and nevertheless they voted for us.” “The people of Australia will be watching very closely what we as senators do,” he warned.
(8) I had incurred the maximum of political odium for the minimum of political benefit."
(9) 'Community care' will come to deserve the odium now attached to the worst practices of former times if the tradition of asylum practised in the best of the large hospitals is not (with appropriate modification) acknowledged, properly placed in the psychiatric curriculum, and given high priority in service planning.
Oidium
Definition:
(n.) A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oidium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighteen species of Penicillium, one of Oidium and one of Paecilomyces were found to effect a stereospecific conversion of cis-propenylphosphonate to fosfomycin which was identified by paper chromatography and gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) of the trimethylsilyl esters.