Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being loathsome, or of exciting strong dislike or disgust.
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- noun The property or nature that gives rise to
revulsion , that inspiresloathing .
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- noun the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
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Examples
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There's plenty of meanness, pettiness, selfishness, and loathsomeness out there; let's focus some attention on the greatness.
Arianna Huffington: Introducing HuffPost's Greatest Person of the Day: Lessons in Creativity, Generosity and Passion Arianna Huffington 2010
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That there might have been reasons for his loathsomeness that invite sympathy doesn't change the fact that he was an obnoxious drunk, an emotional bully and sadist, a sexual predator, a rotten husband and an alternately cruel and neglectful father, and it wasn't as though, like Hemingway, he punctuated his awfulness with acts of heroism and generosity.
O Youth and Beauty! 2009
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That there might have been reasons for his loathsomeness that invite sympathy doesn't change the fact that he was an obnoxious drunk, an emotional bully and sadist, a sexual predator, a rotten husband and an alternately cruel and neglectful father, and it wasn't as though, like Hemingway, he punctuated his awfulness with acts of heroism and generosity.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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There's plenty of meanness, pettiness, selfishness, and loathsomeness out there; let's focus some attention on the greatness.
Arianna Huffington: Introducing HuffPost's Greatest Person of the Day: Lessons in Creativity, Generosity and Passion Arianna Huffington 2010
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The call came from the Department of Dunning, a bewildered soul who kept repeating that our August payment was due even as I ventilated on the subject of the check the bank has acknowledged and, more important, cashed and, more broadly, the perfidy and general loathsomeness of her employer.
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This is how it must have begun with all of the people she has come to fall in love with, the murderers and the monsters, the celebrities whose loathsomeness radiates from the television screen.
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But aside from the loathsomeness of Levy's no-holds-barred campaign against undocumented workers, Cox's theory made some sense.
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For me, he's rescued from total loathsomeness by the way he responded to House in serious pain.
Slowly recovering karenmiller 2008
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But aside from the loathsomeness of Levy's no-holds-barred campaign against undocumented workers, Cox's theory made some sense.
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The call came from the Department of Dunning, a bewildered soul who kept repeating that our August payment was due even as I ventilated on the subject of the check the bank has acknowledged and, more important, cashed and, more broadly, the perfidy and general loathsomeness of her employer.
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