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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Examples
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He attempted to embrace her, but she withdrew herself loathingly from his arms.
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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
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"Perhaps I am like my father," he said loathingly.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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Then she took the hands away and looked at the money in them, loathingly.
'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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For all these reasons he had snarled loathingly at the man in white.
Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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Mr. Rogers picked it up and examined it loathingly.
Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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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
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"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.
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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
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- 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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