ADJECTIVE
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highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
a disgusting smell
a loathsome disease
revolting food
a wicked stench
distasteful language
the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
How To Use loathly In A Sentence
- It is then as mysterious an art as it is loathly and horrible; it needs as The Defense
- They add that, although it is loathly and horrible to look upon, being in the form of a skeleton, I yet give it especial honour and call it in the Greek tongue, basileus, my king. The Defense
- No! when a husband she loathes is mated with a woman, even life is loathly to her. Helen
- Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
- Now, since thou hast dared this loathly crime, come, look thy father in the face. Hippolytus
- Half of it is Orpheus+Selkies+Thomas the Rhymer+Gawain and the loathly lady. NaNoWriMo 2009
- The one story I do like is the “loathly lady” where one of the knights is pressured into marrying an old hag. Kingmaking and author Q&A
- Also the yellowessness of these ear thingys will likely change to blackesness later on making them a loathly addition to your goth-emo persona. Regretsy – Auction #5
- The grim and loathly aspect with which the falconer had regarded Oliver The Fair Maid of Perth
- Margaret, daughter of the King of Bamburgh was turned into a "laidly worm" (loathly or loathsome serpent) by her wicked stepmother, who was jealous of the lovely maid. Northumberland Yesterday and To-day