in bad odor
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Compare odour of sanctity.
Adjective edit
- (idiomatic, often followed by with) Regarded with disapproval; in a situation of being disliked; shunned.
- Antonym: in good odor
- 1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Surly Tim:
- 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.
- 1898, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The History of the United States:
- New Hampshire was in bad odor with the English government; but the farmers could endure that with equanimity.
- 1900, Fergus Hume, “On Saturday Night”, in Bishop Pendle: Or, The Bishop’s Secret, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, →OCLC, page 62:
- […] Mosk could not pay his rent and was already in bad odour with his landlord, […]
- 1993 May 8, Russell Baker, “Observer: What's in a Naming?”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Sept 2013:
- For the political right, naturally eager to put the left in bad odor, the naming frenzy was a bonanza.
- 2002 July 22, Bill Saporito, “Wall Street's Verdict”, in Time, retrieved 27 Sept 2013:
- [T]he public looks at them as just a bunch of CEOs — a group in bad odor.
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regarded with disapproval, shunned
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