In the sentence from "Black Cat", what is the best definition of the word "odious"?


I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill use it; but gradually very gradually I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.

AIn a grotesque manner

BSneaky, sly, untrustworthy

CCausing or deserving disgust

DA decreasing anger