loath

How To Use loath In A Sentence

• 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. Times, Sunday Times
• 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. The Decameron
• She was unhappy there, but loath to leave the security of a job and new friends. Times, Sunday Times
• That is likely to give succour to all those who loathe liberal values and democracy. Times, Sunday Times
• I learned to type before I learned to write cursively and I loathe paper ... Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives
• He can turn the state of lonely self-loathing into a veritable inferno of seething threats, fans, mockers, competitors.
• 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.
• To him however that feels the same disgust and loathing, the same unutterable shuddering, as I feel, start up within him and shoot through his whole frame at the sight of them, these miscreate deformities, such as toads, beetles, or that most nauseous of all Nature's abortions, the bat, are not indifferent or insignificant: their very existence is a state of direct enmity and warfare against his. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
• In private, feel free to vent your spleen, cry, denounce the other party as a loathsome cad.