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in bad odor

adj

Etymology

Compare odour of sanctity.

Definitions

  1. Regarded with disapproval

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

    • 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, […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA