All 3 Uses of
odious
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- —Hepzibah!" cried he with no little force and distinctness, "why do you keep that odious picture on the wall?†
Chpt 7 *odious = extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- The house, in my view, is expressive of that odious and abominable Past, with all its bad influences, against which I have just been declaiming.†
Chpt 12
- Will he bear about with him,—no odious grin of feigned benignity, insolent in its pretence, and loathsome in its falsehood,—but the tender sadness of a contrite heart, broken, at last, beneath its own weight of sin?†
Chpt 18