odious

adj

1. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

   “Scrubbing the toilets in the bar at the end of a Saturday night is an odious task.”

   “You told a lie, an odious damned lie: / Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!”

   “I own no crime, unless it be a crime to've hindered you from perpetrating that which would have made you odious to mankind, at least the fairest half.”

   “He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.”

   “He always detested the trade, and it was only necessity, and the offer of his mother’s brother, a London apothecary of low family, into which Pendennis’s father had demeaned himself by marrying, that forced John Pendennis into so odious a calling.”