Modifies a noun

• creature: The Egyptians saw Ursa Minor as the Jackal of Set, a dark loathsome creature who plotted the ruin of the gods of light.

• thing: You have done far more loathsome things than your sisters ever did.

• disease: Scurvy is about the most loathsome disease, and when dropsy takes hold with the scurvy, it is terrible.

• prison: Up from that loathsome prison The stricken blind ones came: Below, had all been darkness, Above, was still the same.

• monster: And how could the suggestions of such a loathsome monster be anything but hateful and repulsive?

• kid: It's a maudlin rumination on loathsome rich kids and their disgusting, ill-mannered behavior, and their even more disgusting, ill-mannered parents.

Modifying Another Word

• so: A toad, a stinking carcass, cannot be so loathsome to us as a sinner is to God.

• particularly: Carrie had looked at him as if he was some particularly loathsome slug.

• truly: Sorry â because the BNP are a truly loathsome development in British politics.

• too: There was no shyness or reserve till the heart grew sinful, and too loathsome a dungeon for God to delight in.

• very: I suspect that anyone religious would find it either very moving or very loathsome.

Used with adjective complement

• become: For when You are present, all things are delightful; when You are absent, all things become loathsome.