What's the difference between hideous and loathly?
Hideous
Definition:
(a.) Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
(a.) Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise.
(a.) Hateful; shocking.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hideously unfair council tax system would be replaced by land value taxation , through which everyone would benefit from the speculative gains now monopolised by a few.
(2) A hideous passing defense, meanwhile, has been upgraded hugely by the addition of cornerback Darrelle Revis.
(3) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(4) As there is no surer sign of things going hideously wrong than Duncan Smith trumpeting his brilliance, Reeves felt it as well to probe a little deeper.
(5) Next to these disasters, the odd jostle to climb on to a refrigerated lorry in Calais, which recently was depicted as a hideous national crisis, is a minor issue.
(6) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
(7) The loud ties, hideous jumpers, bottles of Drambuie, dubious perfumes and aftershaves, second copies of DVDs, panettones and stultifying board games are all an extension of that.
(8) Quite right too, purists would say: Hinkley Point is already hideously expensive.
(9) He played in clubs and sent demo tapes to music producers, but met with rejection: "They would listen to them for 15 seconds and say 'Hideous!
(10) Abbott said at the time the pictures were another example of the “hideous atrocities” such groups were capable of.
(11) We thought it could be funny to combine the rural old man stereotype we get abroad with the hideous pop culture emphases we have on the language at home and to put Pól, Micheál and Síle in a world where they don't belong.
(12) She wrote in an article for the Independent that she had been pursued by online trolls and called an “aggressive feminist” with a “hideous personality”.
(13) Like a hideous old monster of myth, programmed only to protect itself, FPTP has confounded its enemies by flattering them, sweet-talking them, and making them into fools.
(14) The bike is hideous, a vast contraption with an illuminated panel that flashes your heart-rate at you.
(15) When Argos closes (and, God willing, it will, because what we're witnessing now is a recession-backed, online-fuelled evisceration of the high street too hideous for even Mary Portas to contemplate), how I'll laugh.
(16) The hospital that Orwell described in How the Poor Die was a place of hideous cruelty because the staff cared nothing for the patients.
(17) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
(18) He adds: "In Australia's big cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still a hideous drain on the public purse.
(19) One part of the rule is correct: it's odd to use "that" with a nonrestrictive relative clause, as in "The pair of shoes, that cost £5,000, was hideous."
(20) A nonrestrictive relative clause is set off by commas, dashes or parentheses, as in "The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous."
Loathly
Definition:
(a.) Loathsome.
(adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly.
(adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing.
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.