loathy

The poet Edmund Spenser wrote in 1596 that the Irish lived in the most barbaric and loathy conditions of any people I think under heaven. . .

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The loathy floor of liquid mud lay bare beneath the mangrove forest.

Westward Ho! 2007

By chance, or by some swift loosing of force, a life-form from one might well be drawn into another; hence the tales men told about loathy worms and dragons slain by courageous human heroes.

Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975

This is the moral secret of _The Faery Queen_, in which virtues are personified as noble knights or winsome women, while the vices appear in the repulsive guise of hags, monsters and "loathy beasts."

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

The loathy alligators lounging in the slime lifted their horny eyelids lazily, and leered upon him as he passed with stupid savageness.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897

The loathy floor of liquid mud lay bare beneath the mangrove forest.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897

The legends of later growth here begin to thicken, telling how, when the future Buddha heard of the birth of his son, he simply said 'a new bond has been forged to hold me to the world '; and how his mind was first awakened to appreciation of sorrow by seeing loathy examples of age, sickness, and death presented to him as he drove abroad.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

The loathy floor of liquid mud lay bare beneath the mangrove forest.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847