loath vs loathe
Definitions
adjective
- unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom
- (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
Examples
This initially meant they were loath to adopt a reportage style, preferring empty streets and unobscured buildings, with people represented only to provide an area of scale or as pure portraiture.
They're often highly prized works that people are loath to part with.
They having observed where the Chest stood, and wanting a necessary mooveable to houshold, yet loath to lay out money for buying it: complotted together this very night, to steale it thence, and carry it home to their house, as accordingly they did; finding it somewhat heavy, and therefore imagining, that matter of woorth was contained therein.
Definitions
verb
- find repugnant
Examples
That is likely to give succour to all those who loathe liberal values and democracy.
I learned to type before I learned to write cursively and I loathe paper ...
She won't be hyped, marketed, trendified, commodified, put in a box - and even though she probably loathes sound-bites as well, she has a way with words when describing her fierce individualism.
