Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Great dislike; abhorrence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Extreme disgust; abhorrence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Sense of
revulsion ,distaste ,detestation , extremehatred ordislike . - verb Present participle of
loathe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hate coupled with disgust
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Examples
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In the last two decades, due to Israeli barbarism, an influx of Jewish lobbying together with a growing opportunity for Jews to depart from their tribal setting, Jewish self-loathing is becoming an intellectual tide.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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Out of the all the superhero movies to date, this period of self-doubt and loathing, is probably the most adult issue.
Iron Man 2 Movie Review ***SPOILERS*** « Monster Scifi Show Blog 2010
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The far right has done its calculations, and it is pretty certain that just doing these kinds of ad hominem attacks will finally drag down a promising time in our political history, and return us to the dark ages of fear and loathing from the previous years.
Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated' 2009
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Thanks to some great creative minds that are involved in this emerging discourse, a Jewish self-loathing is also a poetic universal and ethical humanist message.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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I turned with loathing from the woman who could utter so unfeeling a speech to a person just saved, on the very edge of death; but I felt languid, and unable to reflect on all that had passed.
Chapter 4 2010
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Out of the all the superhero movies to date, this period of self-doubt and loathing, is probably the most adult issue.
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Out of the all the superhero movies to date, this period of self-doubt and loathing, is probably the most adult issue.
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It's all part of the legacy of abuse and neglect thing: self-loathing is yet another toxic behavior instilled by a crappy childhood.
funny how the whole world--historically--feels the urge to chase the sun to rest stillsostrange 2009
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I turned with loathing from the woman who could utter so unfeeling a speech to a person just saved, on the very edge of death; but I felt languid, and unable to reflect on all that had passed.
Chapter 21 2010
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What most fills the Thought Police with fear and loathing is somebody who has thought a lot about a forbidden subject.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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