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Meaning of odious as a toad | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Very odious; hateful.

archaic, not-comparable

Examples

And we have already rendred our irreconcileable Enemy the Duke of Buckingham as odious as a Toad.”
E'en to a Rat he favour show'd, To some as odious as a toad : To him for bread it often came, ( For kindness can all creatures tame)”
How fear, self-condemnation, guilt and joy flushed through her as she hastily pushed Brownfield away; pushed him away as if he were as odious as a toad, as inconsequential as some kind of harmless lizard.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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