Meaning of in bad odor | Babel Free

Definitions

Regarded with disapproval; in a situation of being disliked; shunned.

idiomatic, often

Equivalents

Examples

“So in conversing with men, women, and children, I gradually found out that Tim Hibblethwaite was in bad odor, and that he held himself doggedly aloof from all.”

“New Hampshire was in bad odor with the English government; but the farmers could endure that with equanimity.”

“[…] Mosk could not pay his rent and was already in bad odour with his landlord, […]”

“For the political right, naturally eager to put the left in bad odor, the naming frenzy was a bonanza.”

“[T]he public looks at them as just a bunch of CEOs — a group in bad odor.”

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