Loathsome
['ləʊðs(ə)m] or ['loθsəm]
Definition
(a.) Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Disgusting, sickening, nauseous, nauseating, repulsive, offensive, revolting, palling.[2]. Hateful, detestable, odious, shocking, abominable; abhorrent, execrable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABOMINABLE]
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Examples
- I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We live in filth, and grow loathsome, till we loathe ourselves! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You want it all in that loathsome little skull of yours, that ought to be cracked like a nut. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The presence of the man was simply loathsome to George; and he felt only an impulse to get away from him, with as few words as possible. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- While this was yet in his mind he chanced upon a man suffering horribly from some loathsome disease. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her husband developed some hateful qualities; or shall we say that he contracted some loathsome disease, and became a leper or an imbecile? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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