Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who loathes or abhors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who loathes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
loathes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who hates or loathes
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Examples
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She clapped me round the ear, my mother, and I loather her existence for a time.
Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011
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She clapped me round the ear, my mother, and I loather her existence for a time.
Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011
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He sounds like a self-loather, and completely self-destructive.
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General Zod - I am a UKIP supporter and a strong loather of David Cameron.
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Jewish visitors to Israel, most of them college-age and plainly and proudly drunk, toasting each other in a Jerusalem bar as they vie for the twin crowns of lover of Israel and loather of Obama.
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Haven't always been, but for the past 17 years I've been an ardent Democrat and loather of Republicans.
The Smoking Gun 2009
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But, as a cilantro-loather, I'll stick with parsley, thank you.
Recipe for Cilantro-Lovers Perfect Guacamole with Red Onion, Lime, and Chiles Kalyn Denny 2009
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Much has been made of the fact that Michelle has (or, depending on the convention-bump, had) an image problem, that many Americans perceive her as an angry, secret whitey loather.
Adam Hanft: Michelle Obama's Speech: A High-Tech Groveling 2008
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She is the self-loather and builds the pathetic, quisling exterior to try and delude her sponge* otherwise.
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It's not uncommon to hear some, even among top talents in the industry, talking about how comics are just comics, will always just be comics, should always just be comics, and anyone in comics thinking otherwise is a pompous self-loather trying to rise above their station.
Writing is Hard: Mediocre doesn't cut it anymore Michael May 2008
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