How To Use Loathsome In A Sentence
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In private, feel free to vent your spleen, cry, denounce the other party as a loathsome cad.
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Always enjoyable, Timothy Spall is fantastically weasel-like as the unmasked Peter Pettigrew, every bit as loathsome as can be expected.
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I'd like to propose my own candidate for the most loathsome display of demagoguery in the past 25 years.
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He's a completely loathsome and utterly shallow creep and I look forward to a swift garotting moment in the very near future.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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What a loathsome creature he is!
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As the heavy door fell into place he felt thud after thud after sickening thud as the loathsome creatures outside crashed into the building.
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Set within the confines of a crumbling mansion, a child bride finds an unusual way to escape from her loathsome mill owner husband.
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A thick paste smeared in the oven and left overnight makes that loathsome task easier without the need for chemical cleaners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Victims suffered from bad breath, a loathsome cadaverous stink from within according to one contemporary, and other symptoms included high fever, acute stomach pains and bluish black spots on the body.
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My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
Christianity Today
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On this bill, the governor's was the kind of calculation that makes him so distinctly loathsome a character.
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Faced with this loathsome infestation, I realised the world needed to hear a different kind of voice - the dour voice of Calvinism.
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These vile, bejeweled, befeathered women, these loathsome, swinish men -- _these_ are the people who have money to spend.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow
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Unlike (effortless elision here) the surface of the new-fashioned loathsome double-decker conductorless buses.
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The judge had directed the jury to consider whether the material under consideration was repulsive, filthy, loathsome and lewd.
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This book is richly stocked with people whom any person of decent instincts will find loathsome.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Her sister is the symbol of all that is detestable, damnable and loathsome.
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The mighty chief, atheling excellent, unblithe sat, labored in woe for the loss of his thanes, when once had been traced the trail of the fiend, spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow, too long, too loathsome.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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The unreasoning, regular arrival of the stuff convinces me that only people who had turned themselves into loathsome machines for unguessable reasons could be behind it.
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Never mind, rather like buses, if you miss one chance to comment on the tabloids insensitivity, self-aggrandisement, condescension and general loathsomeness there bound to be another chance coming along shortly.
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Brandt's fools as contemptible and loathsome, and say what he calls follies might be better described as sins and vices.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
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Like a living animal, the wood pounced on its prey, wrapping itself around the loathsome wizard.
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And given the attempt by the footballer's lawyers to restrict the sales of Rooney's Gold, the loathsome book about his life and times written by the equally feisty BBC hack John Sweeney, Wayne might also reasonably ask why, when the frighteners have been put on WHSmith and Waterstone's, his own employers – Manchester United – are selling it on the club's official website United Direct: £16.99 for the hardback he detests.
Diary
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The stink is loathsome and high where wasted rubbish gets disposed off uncaringly in an open public place.
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This book is richly stocked with people whom any person of decent instincts will find loathsome.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I guarantee as this thread plays out it will be salted with philippics from rabid Palin lovers bemoaning "all the hate" being spewed by loathsome Liberals because they are so "scared" of her.
Palin attorney warns media over 'defamatory' charges
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There is a loathsome smell of rotting flesh in the room.
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But the worst of it is, that in such afflictions as yours is, the idea of ever becoming comforted is altogether loathsome, and so, my darling, I can do you no good.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The Megiddo Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary, published in Israel, correctly defines shegetz as follows: ‘unclean animal; loathsome creature, abomination colloquial - pronounced shaygets wretch, unruly youngster; Gentile youngster’.
Sha With The Shiksa! | Jewschool
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The timing, with everyone else credit-crunched and recession-haunted, made it all the more loathsome.
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As soon as the door was opened, I was confronted by a loathsome oleograph of a Neapolitan shepherdess (that same oleograph used to turn up often in the shops where unclaimed objects from the state pawnshop, the Monte di Pietà, are sold).
Home Alone
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I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.
Chapter 13
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There were none, whose behaviour shined brighter in the eyes of men, nor whose heart was more loathsome in the eyes of God; for they did all to be seen and talked of; and (as it were) to ride in triumph upon the tongues of men; and, in fine, were the arrantest puritans in the world, those only of a later date excepted, who, it is confessed, have infinitely outdone their original.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust.
LAST CALL
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Eventhen I had an instinctive revulsion toward men who start everything andnever carry anything out These jacks-of-all-trades were loathsome to me.
Mein Kampf
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There's plenty of meanness, pettiness, selfishness, and loathsomeness out there; let's focus some attention on the greatness.
Arianna Huffington: Introducing HuffPost's Greatest Person of the Day: Lessons in Creativity, Generosity and Passion
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Yes, unfortunately I do recognize you, and the only change I can see is your growth into a more pathetic and loathsome man than the cur I knew before this trip.
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The medical sexologist Edwin Hirsch wrote in 1934 that oral sex is “generally regarded as loathsome and indicative of a sad degree of sexual perversion.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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But I never did find out what anyone found in her that was so loathsome.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. Margaret Mead
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The call came from the Department of Dunning, a bewildered soul who kept repeating that our August payment was due even as I ventilated on the subject of the check the bank has acknowledged and, more important, cashed and, more broadly, the perfidy and general loathsomeness of her employer.
Alfred Gingold: CHASE HOME WEASEL UPDATE
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We are simply asked to contemplate the appalling act and the nightmare that one loathsome human being can inflict on an innocent bystander.
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Lewis's Narnia stories "morally loathsome," and in a 1998 essay for the Guardian, "The Dark Side of Narnia," derided "the misognyny, the racism, the sado-masochistic relish for violence that permeates the whole cycle"?
Archive 2005-12-01
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This reviewer can best be compared to that kind of marketplace loafer; they have not only loathsomeness in common but also their aim: to earn a little drink money - by carrying home and by reviewing.
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The change, indeed, was an unpleasant one, from a large, commodious house, to what they called a castle, which was, in fact, a most loathsome prison.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr
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The lusts treated of in the four following chapters, are not only lusts of adultery, but are more grievous than those since they exist only from adulteries, being taken to after adulteries are become loathsome; as the lust of defloration, which is first treated of, and which cannot previously exist with any one; in like manner the lust of varieties, the lust of violation, and the lust of seducing innocencies, which are afterwards treated of.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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I assure you that they are studded with feculent tidbits of loathsome vileness, mostly in the form of links to websites explaining how Obama is exactly the same as Hitler and why it's important to defend white culture.
9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
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This system of infidelity is well symbolized by a noisome, grevious ulcer, which is loathsome to the sight, offensive to the smell, corrupting to the body, and productive of awful pain.
The Revelation Explained
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In a feeble attempt to demonstrate how loathsome women are, John Hurt even tells the entire labyrinthian plot of Samson and Delilah, replete with film clips of Hedy Lamarr wielding a pair of scissors.
No Upside of Anger
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That he was loathsome, a complete fruitcake, and madman is well known.
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Loathsome as it is to try to beg for your life when you were willing to kill others, it is at least a very human form of loathsomeness.
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Previously, I've found him to be a fairly loathsome figure, the epitome of all that is rotten about the role of the spin doctor in modern politics.
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It is loathsome to think that balefulness of an unknown cause could create such a catastrophe.
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Historians have since described and explained how torture was a loathsome, almost automatic feature of colonial wars.sentence dictionary
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In any circumstances, such an attack would be loathsome.
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Historians have since described and explained how torture was a loathsome, almost automatic feature of colonial wars.
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Plant taxonomy was given structure by the 18th century Swedish botanist Linnaeus: on the basis of their sexual organs (a system described by one critic as "loathsome harlotry"), every plant was assigned two Latin names – the first denoting its genus (or clan), the second denoting the species, often followed by the name or initial of the first person to "describe" it to science.
Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive'
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In a perverse sense, it is more honest, where Eliot sneaks a couple of loathsome Jewish portraitures into his poetry, distorted so grossly that they are obviously despicable.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust ; my skin is broken , and loathsome.
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We punish because the criminal act was loathsome and the criminal himself hateful.
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Tooth-brushes are scrutinised for fear that the bristles came from the loathsome pig.
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Re cultures killing women who "misbehave," that is loathsome, of course, but how is this infecting the West?
"the impresario of unnecessary violence"
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My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
Christianity Today
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There are many sins, little ones, that in our practice pass for venal and uncontrolled; but look on the filthy loathsome nature of all sin, and hate the least offence, for it hath a kind of infiniteness in it, and blotteth the soul, defileth the person.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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The amusement, however, could not prevent his thoughts from returning to the positive facts that he was imprisoned; that in place of passing the day in cooking and eating _duyker_, he had been fasting and fretting in a dark, dirty pit, in the companionship of loathsome reptiles.
The Giraffe Hunters
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He brags, moreover, that he was primus medicorum, and did more famous cures than all the physicians in Europe besides, [4166] a drop of his preparations should go farther than a dram, or ounce of theirs, those loathsome and fulsome filthy potions, heteroclitical pills (so he calls them), horse medicines, ad quoram aspectum Cyclops Polyphemus exhorresceret.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The decrepit fingers looked like ten claws as they clutched loathsomely at the greasy bread and butter; I felt qualmish, and passed by without addressing him.
Hunger
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For me, he's rescued from total loathsomeness by the way he responded to House in serious pain.
Slowly recovering
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He added that he had been told by Robert Valbringue, who lately passed that way in his return from Africa, that a sixth kind was to fly hither out of hand, which he called capus-hawks, more grum, vinegar-faced, brain-sick, froward, and loathsome than any kind whatsoever in the whole island.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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And how his heart flamed when his loathsome boss slapped on the additional insult of overtime hours or weekend work.
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And of course, along with these loathsome ceremonies, go incantations, chants, dances, and frenzies, sometimes ending in catalepsis.
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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Given how loathsome the men are, all the emotional wallop comes from the women.
Times, Sunday Times
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As someone who's been essentially self taught in most academic fields, I find the increasing credentialism very loathsome.
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Given how loathsome the men are, all the emotional wallop comes from the women.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first is particularly loathsome.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they made up for it, discussing and comparing the more loathsome features of their disease in the most cold-blooded, matter-of-fact way.
THE SPIKE
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Though not venomous in the strict sense of the word, the 'goanna's bite generally causes a festering wound on account of the loathsome habits of the creature.
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
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The mighty chief, atheling excellent, unblithe sat, labored in woe for the loss of his thanes, when once had been traced the trail of the fiend, spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow, too long, too loathsome.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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And now that the spiritual loathsomeness of our venture has been indicated, let us proceed.
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He cut up and smoke-dried the flesh, and the intolerable pangs of hunger compelled me to share the loathsome food with him.
Green Mansions
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That girl, whom I so loved, whom I treated as my child, who was to me an image of what they call womanly purity, throws herself away upon my most detested enemy, a loathsome corpse, whose body, soul, and spirit had already decayed.
Debts of Honor
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We punish because the criminal act was loathsome and the criminal himself hateful.
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That sort of knowledge, by which a man has a sensible perception of amiableness and loathsomeness, or of sweetness and nauseousness, is not just the same sort of knowledge with that, by which he knows what a triangle is, and what a square is.
Warranted Christian Belief
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The judge had directed the jury to consider whether the material under consideration was repulsive, filthy, loathsome and lewd.
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My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
Christianity Today
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Now we are all expected to cheer for Bill Gates, who in surpassing the Rockefellers and the Carnegies and defying the loathsome bureaucrats at the Justice Department, has proven himself to be the People's Monopolist.
REVIEWS
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He took a sip of a particularly loathsome vintage, chewed on it for a few seconds and, just as he was about to spit, someone tapped him on the arm to ask him a question.
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The horrible loathsomeness, the contagiousness, the non-curableness, etc. So the man was shut out from camp and from sanctuary.
Expositions of Holy Scripture
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This book is richly stocked with people whom any person of decent instincts will find loathsome.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Crocodiles and rattlesnakes and pythons are at this moment vessels of life as real as we are; their loathsome existence fills every minute of every day that drags its length along; and whenever they or other wild beasts clutch their living prey, the deadly horror which an agitated melancholiac feels is the literally right reaction on the situation. [
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Glasgow was the most loathsome den north of Tweed, almost the only such den, -- his malison upon Glasgow!
Without Prejudice
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It was loathsome, it was disgusting, and it was a feeling that Laurel had never experienced.
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... the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh ... was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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The outcries of the miserable betossed squire were so many and so loud as they arrived at last to his lords hearing, who, standing awhile to listen attentively what it was, believed that some new adventure did approach, until he perceived at last that he which cried was his squire; wherefore, turning the reins, he made towards the inn with a loathsome gallop, and, finding it shut, he rode all about it to see whether he might enter into it.
The Third Book. III. Wherein Are Rehearsed the Innumerable Misfortunes Which Don Quixote and His Good Squire Sancho Suffered in the Inn, Which He, to His Harm, Thought to Be a Castle
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Yet it's possible that Edina may be even less forgivable as that most loathsome of types, the undeserving rich.
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He's a considerably despicable anti-hero, and a more loathsome character is scarcely imaginable.
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And then, when the last of his loathsome secrets has been told, when he has nothing left either to gain or to conceal, then he rises up into a perfect bankrupt sublimity and makes the great avowal which is the whole pivot and meaning of the poem.
Robert Browning
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It is the story of one of Ireland unsung heroes and the sad occasion of his execution captures the atmosphere prevailing at this loathsome event.
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This is how it must have begun with all of the people she has come to fall in love with, the murderers and the monsters, the celebrities whose loathsomeness radiates from the television screen.
The Uses of Enchantment
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But there is an admirable lack of the loathsomeness of punning headlines; everywhere, the book plays it straight, and plays it true.
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a loathsome disease
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Mariam did surmise, by the way Nana said the word, that it was an ugly, loathsome thing to be a harami, like an insect, like the scurrying cockroaches Nana was always cursing and sweeping out of the kolba.
Excerpt: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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Historians have since described and explained how torture was a loathsome, almost automatic feature of colonial wars.
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Junior appears dragging the "funnies" (a loathsome term in itself) to be read to him.
Love Conquers All
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Battered and the Pipes Shattered about their Eares, that idely Idolize so base and barbarous a Weed, or at least overlove so loathsome a
The Social History of Smoking
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The most loathsome reptile, rolling in the slush and slime of its stagnant pool, would not bemean itself thus.
Plain Facts for Old and Young
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It is the inconformity of sin unto the holiness of God, as represented in the law, whence it is loathsome to
Pneumatologia
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Of course, not all unnamed sources in newspaper stories are loathsome or immediately suspect.
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Not a great surprise, and in all possibility a victory for freedom of speech, even if his comments were utterly offensive and loathsome.
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The title of this tirade is very quaint, viz. "Tobacco battered, and the Pipes shattered (about their Ears who idly idolize so base and barbarous a Weed; or at least-wise overlove so loathsome a Vanity) by a Volley of holy Shot from Mount Helicon.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
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V. i.23 (119,4) cold palsies] This catalogue of loathsome maladies ends in the folio at _cold palsies_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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The rest of the morning he flapped from nest to pole to river and back again, trying to rid himself of what was now a loathsome burden.
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Racial prejudice is like having a loathsome disease though, it's something you try to cure, and hide if you can't cure it.
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Perhaps only Rutger Hauer could have brought the correct nuance to the role of a righteous hobo who shows up in some lawless, post-apocalyptic urban hellhole in Canada, to find the loathsome roost ruled by the sadistic Drake family – a raddled old tyrant with dyed black hair and two psycho-bully sons who dress like rejects from an 80s pop video.
Hobo With a Shotgun – review
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. Margaret Mead
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They are renowned for having a slippery relationship with the truth, but this week's goss mags are in an even more loathsome tangle than usual.
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A blunt swashbuckler salvaged only by Tim Roth's wonderfully loathsome villain.
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The first is particularly loathsome.
Times, Sunday Times
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To thy thinking she is a most loathsome creature; and as when a country fellow discommended once that exquisite picture of Helen, made by Zeuxis, [5406] for he saw no such beauty in it; Nichomachus a lovesick spectator replied,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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We are simply asked to contemplate the appalling act and the nightmare that one loathsome human being can inflict on an innocent bystander.
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The slide-like table top allows one to literally push those useless papers to the side and straight into the bin – forgoing the loathsome task of crumpling and searching under your desk for that bin.
Adele Chong | Inhabitat
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I find the notion of the proposed boycott loathsome and frightening.
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The poor girl was so fearfully covered with the loathsome eruption, that on the sixth day her skin could not be seen on any part of her body.
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I instructed him to convene the ambassadors, and I asked him to immediately put into action all of the -- all-out diplomatic authorities, all of our representations throughout the world to explain, and again, outclimb and present the loathsome activities of these Arab terrorist organizations.
CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2002
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The loathsome smell of the small chamber made her feel sick.
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Politically loathsome as the character may be, the actress found herself inventing dialogue to humanise the gorgon.
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But aside from the loathsomeness of Levy's no-holds-barred campaign against undocumented workers, Cox's theory made some sense.
Dan Collins: GOP Sticks With Rick for Governor
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Brandt's fools are represented as contemptible and loathsome rather than _foolish_, and what he calls follies might be more correctly described as sins and vices.
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
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The police described it as one of the most loathsome crimes of recent years.
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That there might have been reasons for his loathsomeness that invite sympathy doesn't change the fact that he was an obnoxious drunk, an emotional bully and sadist, a sexual predator, a rotten husband and an alternately cruel and neglectful father, and it wasn't as though, like Hemingway, he punctuated his awfulness with acts of heroism and generosity.
O Youth and Beauty!
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'If it were not for what you call my disgusting pride, I should degenerate into that loathsome animal a sponge,' said Ida, rising suddenly from her dejected attitude, and standing up before her admiring little friend,
The Golden Calf
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It stands as an act of loathsome brutality in and of itself - fair enough.
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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
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But lest even this very moderate calculation should be considered extravagant, which is by many competent judges believed to be far too low, we will reckon the consumers at one million, and the average cost at ten dollars each a year, for the whole; and then we have _the enormous tax of three millions of dollars_, to be annually paid in these United States for the useless consumption of this loathsome drug.
A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
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Then cast away _all_ the loathsome littleness which has rusted and fouled around you, and look at Nature as she literally _is_, in her naked beauty, conceiving and forming, quickening and warming into infinitely varied and lovely life, and then _forming_ once again with the strong and harsh influences of death, pain and decay.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Schiödte, a Danish entomologist, has, it seems to us, forever settled the question as to whether the louse bites the flesh or sucks blood, and decides a point interesting to physicians, _i. e._, that the loathsome disease called phthiriasis is a nonentity.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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This sappy, sentimental, self-congratulatory awards show sums up much that's loathsome about America.
