Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: loathing
IPA transcription: [l'oʊθɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium
    Meaning: hate coupled with disgust
Usage examples
  • He felt an unaccountable loathing
  • Aside from loathing Phyllis, he had particularly wanted to stag that game and entertain some Harvard friends.
  • She turned away in stoical silence, with a curl of that loathing scorn upon her lips which swelled in her heart.
  • "You say that you know who did these crimes?" asked the Prussian colonel, eyeing with loathing the blue-bloused, rat-faced creature before him.
  • They know this because God has told them so, and in the name of God they seek to keep people tied in sex unions which have come to mean loathing instead of love.
  • Just a moment we gazed upon each other, and then the look of hope and renewed courage which had glorified her face as she discovered me, faded into one of utter dejection, mingled with loathing and contempt.
  • I trembled at these words and rejoined, "By Allah the Omnipotent, O my lord, I have taken a loathing to wayfare, and when I hear the words 'Voyage' or 'Travel,' my limbs tremble for what hath befallen me of hardships and horrors.
  • I did not, for some weeks, strike or otherwise violently ill-use it, but gradually--very gradually--I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence as from the breath of a pestilence.
  • For the men had rejected their lawful wives, loathing them, and had conceived a fierce passion for captive maids whom they themselves brought across the sea from their forays in Thrace; for the terrible wrath of Cypris came upon them, because for a long time they had grudged her the honours due.