odious

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The Word of the Day for September 10 is: 

odious   \OH-dee-us\   adjective
     : arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful

Example sentence:
     Martin was an odious person: cruel, violent, and deceitful, willing to do 
anything to anyone to gain the wealth and power he craved.

Did you know?
     "Odious" has been with us since the days of Middle English. We borrowed it 
from Anglo-French, which in turn had taken it from Latin "odiosus." The Latin 
adjective came from the noun "odium," meaning "hatred." "Odium" is also an 
ancestor of the English verb "annoy" (another word that came to Middle English 
via Anglo-French). And, at the beginning of the 17th century, "odium" entered 
English in its unaltered form, giving us a noun meaning "hatred" or "disgrace" 
(as in "ideas that have incurred much odium").