Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With loathing or extreme disgust or abhorrence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With loathing.

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  • adverb With loathing.

Etymologies

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loathing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • He attempted to embrace her, but she withdrew herself loathingly from his arms.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • You tread loathingly an indescribable earthen floor, and your eye, on entering the apartment, is arrested by a nameless production of the fictile art, certainly not of _Etruscan_ form, which is invariably placed on the _bolster_ of the truck-bed destined presently for your devoted head.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

  • "Perhaps I am like my father," he said loathingly.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Then she took the hands away and looked at the money in them, loathingly.

    'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

  • For all these reasons he had snarled loathingly at the man in white.

    Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Mr. Rogers picked it up and examined it loathingly.

    Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • From the corner into which, loathingly, he had kicked it, he drew forth the bundle containing "The Marquis Suit."

    Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902

  • "Things are looking in a very bad way for you, Mr. Mallalieu," he whispered, when he was closeted with Mallalieu in the little room which the captive now hated fiercely and loathingly.

    The Borough Treasurer 1899

  • Again I recoiled -- wrathfully, loathingly, turned my face homeward, and fled on.

    The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • - I saw the slain victim, -- the tumultuous crowd -- and above all, the relentless Queen who, with one movement of her little hand, had swept away a life, -- and as I looked upon her loathingly, she threw back her shrouding golden veil.

    The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889

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