loathsome
causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive: a loathsome skin disease.
Origin of loathsome
1Other words for loathsome
Opposites for loathsome
Other words from loathsome
- loath·some·ly, adverb
- loath·some·ness, noun
- un·loath·some, adjective
Words that may be confused with loathsome
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How to use loathsome in a sentence
So Jones gets extra points on the loathsomeness scale for giving the country the payday loan industry.
Did she not of late take into her own house a paralytic boy, whose loathsomeness had driven away every one else?
The Saint's Tragedy | Charles KingsleyMeta and Poli stood shoulder to shoulder firing into the mass of loathsomeness that boiled through the door.
Deathworld | Harry HarrisonThe change in all its loathsomeness came rapidly over his features, which began to lose their outline.
The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories | Algernon BlackwoodThe ghastly want of sense of beauty, and endurance of loathsomeness gaining hourly on the people!
Arrows of the Chace, v. 2 | John Ruskin
Dante tears away the wrappings, and we see the horrid heart and actual loathsomeness of sin.
The World's Best Books | Frank Parsons
British Dictionary definitions for loathsome
/ (ˈləʊðsəm) /
causing loathing; abhorrent
Derived forms of loathsome
- loathsomely, adverb
- loathsomeness, noun
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