Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of loathing; abhorring; hating.
  • Exciting loathing or disgust; loathsome; hateful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
  • adjective Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
  • adjective Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.

Etymologies

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loath +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • He has not even pushed Congress to scrap the most repressive, loathful and patently unconstitutional features of the Bush's anti-terrorist policies.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Is a Huge Stretch 2009

  • How many people will have forgotten her incompetence and loathful behavior four years from now?

    A Fake Expert and Phony Think Tank - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • I'll leave it at that because I've already spent enough time being neurotic and self-loathful about it.

    Misc. Junk 2002

  • The latter, in spite of his passion for Alice, seemed to return the loathful antipathy of her brother; the similarity of their dispositions made them like joint possessors of an individual nature, which could not become wholly the property of one, unless by the extinction of the other.

    Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852

  • At the word, Goodman Brown stepped forth from the shadow of the trees and approached the congregation, with whom he felt a loathful brotherhood by the sympathy of all that was wicked in his heart.

    Young Goodman Brown 1846

  • The latter, in spite of his passion for Alice, seemed to return the loathful antipathy of her brother; the similarity of their dispositions made them like joint possessors of an individual nature, which could not become wholly the property of one, unless by the extinction of the other.

    Alice Doane`s Appeal 1835

  • At the word, Goodman Brown stepped forth from the shadow of the trees and approached the congregation, with whom he felt a loathful brotherhood by the sympathy of all that was wicked in his heart.

    Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Alice, seemed to return the loathful antipathy of her brother; the similarity of their dispositions made them like joint possessors of an individual nature, which could not become wholly the property of one, unless by the extinction of the other.

    Sketches and Studies Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • The sub-humans that drive the media culture are so loathful of themselves that they will come to hate Obama for thinking he is better than they are; or that he doesn't need them; or they just get tired of the uppity black guy.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Vile and loathful we may be, but there is something about what others view as pitiful, as the lowest of the low, as filthy and execrable, repulsive and inhuman, diseased and outcast, that appeals to us passionately, and once we have glimpsed the quickest path of descent, we are racing down it gaily like children on some grand 1950s adventure story

    mimi in NY 2009

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