verb
noun
definition
Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.
example
The man's loathing of his former friend was palpable; you could feel how much he now hated him.
Examples of loathing in a Sentence
After her triumphal entry into Paris with the latter she soon became an object of loathing to the whole French nation.
This feeling explains his detestation of foreign manners and superstitions, his loathing not only of inhuman crimes and cruelties but even of the lesser derelictions from selfrespect, his scorn of luxury and of art as ministering to luxury, his mockery of the poetry and of the stale and dilettante culture of his time, and perhaps, too, his indifference to the schools of philosophy and his readiness to identify all the professors of stoicism with the reserved and close-cropped puritans, who concealed the worst vices under an outward appearance of austerity.
Blain and Umbreon were staring at me with utter loathing.
One night while he lay awake, he tells us, he saw the likeness of the Blessed Virgin with her divine Son; and immediately a loathing seized him for the former deeds of his life, especially for those relating to carnal desires; and he asserts that for the future he never yielded to any such desires.
Her only excuse is that as a sister of Marie Antoinette the very name of Republican or Jacobin filled her with loathing.
I have also developed a deep, passionate loathing for Cisco IOS.
Every socialist feels a natural loathing for such a system.
I can think of no British politician who inspired such sheer loathing as she did.
Speaking for myself, I have never in my life felt such impassioned loathing for a mere politician.
To the clerical and ultra-royalist faction which was supreme in the Lower Chamber and in the circles of the court after the second Restoration, Gregoire, as a revolutionist and a schismatic bishop, was an object of double loathing.
Ashraf gave her good reason for that distrust which, over time, grew into intense loathing.
The longer it went on the more the deeply rooted self loathing got a footing in her soul.
Buffy's little shriek seemed meant to accompany his own surge of self- loathing.
Their filthy habits and disgusting practices of gross promiscuous feeding, even to the extent of eating offal and dead men's flesh, look almost like a direct repudiation of the strict Brahmanical code of ceremonial purity and cleanliness, and of the rules regulating the matter and manner of eating and drinking; and they certainly make them objects of loathing and terror wherever they are seen.
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas was the opening salvo in the war fought by the greatest remaining commentator of our age.
Kingdom of Loathing is a hilarious browser-based MMORPG that Aysmmetric Publications launched in 2003.
Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas invariably remember the "bat country" scene.
It is well known that I have a passionate loathing of musicals.
In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas he steps it up a notch and wears very large aviator styled frames with a retro feel.
Kingdom of Loathing is one of the few MMORPGs that you can actually complete.
Now, I am a professional adult who has tried to leave this all behind me but some how this guy found out and he went from being in love with me and crazy about me to loathing me!
Her fall brought joy to all of us who shared that loathing.
I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight.
I waver back and forth between which one I think is the absolute worst, so I present them both for your loathing.
At midnight he awoke; the dancing-girls were lying in the ante-room; an overpowering loathing filled his soul.
What he saw of Congress during a month's visit to Washington in 1834 filled him with loathing for politics as a career, and he returned to Boston resolved to devote himself to the practice of law.
The Lombards who, after they had occupied the lands and cities of Upper Italy, still went on sending forth furious bands to plunder and destroy where they did not care to stay, never were able to overcome the mingled fear and scorn and loathing of the Italians.
The reaction, which was dull and heavy in the dominions of the pope and of Victor Emmanuel, systematically harsh in the Austrian states of the north, and comparatively mild in Parma and Tuscany, excited the greatest loathing in southern Italy and Sicily, because there it was directed by a dynasty which had aroused feelings of hatred mingled with contempt.