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Odious vs Culpable - What's the difference?

odious | culpable |

As adjectives the difference between odious and culpable

is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while culpable is meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy.

odious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
    • Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
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    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.

    Synonyms

    * detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable

    Anagrams

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    culpable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy.
    • I am culpable for stealing your money.

    Derived terms

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