[ UK /lˈə‍ʊðɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫoʊθɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. hate coupled with disgust
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How To Use loathing In A Sentence

  • He can turn the state of lonely self-loathing into a veritable inferno of seething threats, fans, mockers, competitors.
  • 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
  • It was only when confronted with the loathing so many on the left feel for him that I discovered how much there was to admire in the doughty old demagogue.
  • The ill-natured Marx, the venomous Lenin, the murderous Stalin all had a deep-seated loathing of all those who disagreed with them.
  • In this interpretation, Benjamin has been tainted by his relationship with Mrs Robinson and her alcoholic self-loathing.
  • People who took football too seriously aroused deep loathing in me.
  • Moreover, when she eventually stops seeking these abusive men she substitutes their external abuses for a violent form of self-loathing that eventually becomes self-mutilation.
  • Then the facts are burst upon them, and they shrink from their husbands in loathing and horror.
  • A place that must have been the first step out of the working classes into the fear and loathing of the lower middle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Where there is fear are loathing, there are investment opportunities. Times, Sunday Times
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