What's the difference between disgusting and loathful?
Disgusting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgust
(a.) That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
(2) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(3) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
(4) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
(5) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
(6) The Fifa ethics investigator who spent 18 months and £6m compiling a report into the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race has quit his post in disgust, departing with a broadside against the organisation’s culture and practices.
(7) He is also a vocal proponent of the benefit cap , finding it disgusting that some families can claim more in benefits than the average person earns, even while he finds it intolerable that he can only claim in accommodation expenses £2,000 more than the cap .
(8) However, among 27 patients examined by means of intracranial EEG recordings, it was evident that a disgust expression occurred with oro-alimentary automatisms at the beginning of mesial temporal lobe seizures, whereas a happy one occurred without oro-alimentary automatisms at the beginning of lateral temporal lobe seizures.
(9) 2.09pm GMT Hester: it disgusts and deeply depresses me RBS has issued a video clip of its chief executive, Stephen Hester, talking about today's fines.
(10) A spokesperson for Boycott Workfare, a grassroots organisation that has campaigned to stop forced unpaid work schemes, said the move was disgusting.
(11) He adds that he's "disgusted" at planned cuts to housing benefit, which he believes will result in greater homelessness.
(12) Ivens's apology was issued after a meeting with Jewish community organisations including the Board of the Deputies of British Jews, which had complained to the Press Complaints Commission on Sunday, describing the cartoon as "appalling" and "all the more disgusting" for being published on Holocaust Memorial Day, "given the similar tropes levelled against Jews by the Nazis".
(13) During the first Republican presidential debate, Kelly questioned whether Trump had the temperament for the job, given that he had called women he disliked “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals” in the past.
(14) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(15) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
(16) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
(17) However, the barrister says they could link up with others in Northern Ireland and Britain, such as the Occupy movement and UK Uncut, who are equally disgusted at the banks' behaviour during this long recession.
(18) Disgusting.” Shame worked on me where the fear of distant, hacking death had failed.
(19) The items included normal adult foods and exemplars of different adult rejection categories: disgust (e.g.
(20) His staunch refusal to sell his nine hectares of land needed for the development angered Trump, who described the piece of land as "disgusting".
Loathful
Definition:
(a.) Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
(a.) Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(2) He also loathed war, and later opposed the Falklands, Gulf and Kosovo campaigns.
(3) Mutual loathing (if this is the opinion of trained soldiers, what must it be like among the population?)
(4) The Freedom Caucus, a group of Tea Party conservatives, have come to loathe Boehner for working too closely with House Democrats and the White House to pass bills – including last week’s continuing resolution to fund the government – despite their inclusion of provisions hated by the right, such as funding for Planned Parenthood and Obamacare.
(5) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
(6) for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
(7) Bridget's combination of self-loathing, enthusiasm and hope against the odds struck a chord.
(8) We loathe each other," is the latest from his nemesis on that.)
(9) It is now the official opposition, boosted by the star quality of the Tory leader Ruth Davidson and Scotland has given the once loathed party of Margaret Thatcher its biggest fillip since the 1950s.
(10) So, by that token, the public would have loathed PMQs and loved the civilised debate on Stafford hospital that followed.
(11) But anyone who has had to apply for sickness benefits may find that the name triggers – according to one MP – a sense of "fear and loathing".
(12) Detained by US immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America' | Mem Fox Read more After receiving notice that his Nexus card – part of a program designed to expedite border crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers – had been revoked, Ahmad decided to use his lunch break on Friday to pay a visit to the Nexus office in Michigan.
(13) The ministering of fear: dystopia and loathing at the Republican convention Read more Fortified versions of Soviet “ Zil lanes ” allowed leaders to shuttle safely between venues, behind high fences separating them from the rest of the street.
(14) If they did, they are smart,” he offered although, while the manager was loath to admit it, the suspended Cesc Fàbregas had still been missed.
(15) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
(16) During his time as education secretary, Michael Gove was loathed by the majority of the education professionals.
(17) He has been derided in these pages, but that derision is surpassed by the venomous hatred of the Daily Mail , which loathes the Cameron government in any case and particularly despised Mitchell in his previous job.
(18) Truly, a titbit with such potential for female anxiety and self-loathing is like an iron filing to the media's magnet.
(19) Meanwhile, Tory backbenchers' cup of loathing for the Lib Dems overflows.
(20) Margaret Thatcher’s ideological spite towards a working class that she loathed for their solidarity had robbed huge swaths of the country of their sense of identity.