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loathsome Definition

loath·some (t̸hsəm, lōt̸h-)

adjective

causing loathing; disgusting; abhorrent; detestable

Etymology: ME lothsum

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loathsome

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loathsome Usage Examples

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.
loathsome Quotes

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless?öno, yet free from guilt or pain, Which were, for his will made or suffered them, Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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