Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Loathsome.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Loathsome; disgusting.
- In a loathsome manner; disgustingly.
- Unwillingly; reluctantly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a loathsome manner; disgustingly.
- adv. Unwillingly; reluctantly.
- adj. loathsome; hideous
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Loathsome.
- adv. Unwillingly; reluctantly.
- adv. obsolete So as to cause loathing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Etymologies
- From Middle English lothli, loothly, from Old English lāþlīc ("loathly, hateful, horrible, repulsive, unpleasant"), equivalent to loath + -ly. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English lothly, from Old English lāthlīc : lāth, hateful + -līc, like; see -ly1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Also the yellowessness of these ear thingys will likely change to blackesness later on making them a loathly addition to your goth-emo persona.”
“The one story I do like is the “loathly lady” where one of the knights is pressured into marrying an old hag.”
“Half of it is Orpheus+Selkies+Thomas the Rhymer+Gawain and the loathly lady.”
“The grim and loathly aspect with which the falconer had regarded Oliver”
“No! when a husband she loathes is mated with a woman, even life is loathly to her.”
“They add that, although it is loathly and horrible to look upon, being in the form of a skeleton, I yet give it especial honour and call it in the Greek tongue, basileus, my king.”
“It is then as mysterious an art as it is loathly and horrible; it needs as”
“Now, since thou hast dared this loathly crime, come, look thy father in the face.”
“Whereupon he looked in her face and knew her by her loathly form and the length of her dog-teeth: so he asked her,”
“The man was foulest-foul of face and loathly of form, but the woman was a marvel of beauty and loveliness and elegance and perfect grace; and as for the wooden horse, it was a miracle, never saw eyes aught goodlier than it nor more gracious than its make.”
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