loathing

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Yet superimposed on this loathing was the veneer of civilization, that forces kindness and gentleness and self-denial toward the fit that the unfit may be kept alive So Jim gripped his biceps and ground his teeth and the crippled man in the chair stared with bitter black eyes into Jim's angry gray ones.

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  1. noun Great dislike; abhorrence.

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  • The sort of madness that had possessed them all that fatal May in 1970 was generated by drink and self-loathing, and the problems of a skinny child who held no attraction for them wouldn't have been heeded, much less understood She was right about ownership. —  Disordered Minds
  • The West is prone to self-loathing, and romanticizes any who best capture the mantel of victimhood; the Palestinians have brilliantly reinvented themselves by claiming a status akin to women, gays, Hispanics, and blacks-fellow victims of rich while male Westerners; e. —  Works and Days
  • The job filled me with self-loathing, because I felt like if I stayed there, I'd grow accustomed to the fast food life. —  Youth Radio - Top News
  • You cleared out the layers of shame, self-loathing, and allowed yourself to be honest and vulnerable. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Having been misinformed by positive reviews of this device, obviously written by persons concealing a deep self-loathing, and by the text prominently displayed on its box asserting —  Lean Left
 

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loathing:   loathe ·  loathed ·  loathes
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  1. from Middle English lothing; verbal noun of loathe, v.
 

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/ˈloʊðɪŋ/
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