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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of loathe.

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Examples

  • A third week went by, and Martin loathed himself, and loathed life.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • As much as Carlin loathed theology, war, greed, and hypersensitivity, he was most disgusted when religous puritans, the military, corporations, and P.C. “classroom liberals” mangled the language for the purpose of soothing the masses.

    Marty Beckerman On George Carlin | Disinformation 2008

  • The thing was written by a person named Jason Maoz, who made the argument that I had established a moral equivalence between my beloved, mourned and very much missed friend David -- and William Ayres, whom I have loathed from a distance for 40 years and who, by any true standard of justice, should have spent serious jail time for his acts.

    Ideologues in Extremis - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • It is a phrase loathed by justice Antonin Scalia - anyone, he said, who believes that is "an idiot."

    Stanley Kutler: No More Judges on the Supreme Court 2009

  • A third week went by, and Martin loathed himself, and loathed life.

    Chapter 17 1908

  • Mine is that many, whom become fathers and whom become the father that are such loathed aka deabeats are usually low in self esteem, poorly educated, jobless or poorly employed, low skilled, and no one said that should absolve them from their reponsibilities automatically but they should be assisted.

    Court Strongly Rejects “Choice For Men” Civil Rights Lawsuit 2006

  • Mine is that many, whom become fathers and whom become the father that are such loathed aka deabeats are usually low in self esteem, poorly educated, jobless or poorly employed, low skilled, and no one said that should absolve them from their reponsibilities automatically but they should be assisted.

    Court Strongly Rejects “Choice For Men” Civil Rights Lawsuit 2006

  • I liked the first film OK initially, but kind of loathed the second so much that I ultimately skipped the third.

    Flixnjoystix.com! » This Week@The Movies: SHREK, MacGRUBER, & More! McJeffrey Looks At This Weekend’s Cinematic Offerings! 2010

  • W/r/t Nabokov: I posted a list of things he is reported to have 'loathed' recently on my blog the Small Boats one following a BBC documentary on Lolita that was aired last Saturday.

    Categories of the novel 2009

  • After 9/11 he labeled it a member of the "Axis of Evil," and later said he "loathed" Kim Jong Il. Yet in last month's State of the Union, he didn't even mention the renegade state.

    Looking For A Legacy 2008

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