(n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
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his Nexus card – part of a program designed to expedite border crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers – had been revoked, Ahmad decided to use his lunch break on Friday to pay a visit to the Nexus office in Michigan.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.
Revulsion
Definition:
(n.) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
(n.) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.
(n.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(2) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
(3) It took place on 6 July 2011, two days after the Guardian had published the story about the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone that unleashed a wave of national revulsion and led to the closure of the News of the World.
(4) The foundation's decision to stand firm in the face of a nationwide wave of revulsion to last month's bloody events is all the more striking given that the organisation's headquarters are located in Newtown, just three miles from Sandy Hook school where the carnage occurred.
(5) Instead he buried them in paper, interring them in a tortuous numbering system he devised himself, or in the case of some detailed anatomical details of women's genitals, folding over the page to conceal them, undoubtedly with a shudder of revulsion.
(6) The revulsion was shared by Breivik's estranged father.
(7) Ruling parties, political elites and former ministers in a string of EU countries are embroiled in cash-for-influence scandals that are exposing widespread allegations of corruption, triggering public revulsion and a voters' backlash.
(8) The move was implemented by the party's chief whip, Nick Brown, and fuelled by backbench revulsion at claims that the trio had been using their ministerial experience to seek profitable lobbying consultancies.
(9) Another case that sparked public revulsion was that of Victoria Climbié, who was beaten, burned with cigarettes and forced to sleep in a binliner in a bath during her short life.
(10) Clinton repeated her support for a woman’s right to control her body, while Trump showed his revulsion of late-term abortions and repeatedly described it as “ rip[ping] the baby out of the womb ”.
(11) Revulsion against a discredited elite and its failed social and economic project steadily deepened after 2008.
(12) My revulsion at this act of terrorism happened in black church on a Wednesday night is twofold: I’m horrified that nine lives have been stolen, destroying life as it was known for countless families and an entire congregation; I’m nauseated that the good folks taking care of their communities on Wednesday nights will now do so with varying degrees of terror forever.
(13) Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary There is widespread revulsion that the government is deliberately adding to the dole queues at a time when the economy has not recovered from the "bankers recession".
(14) When South Africa's apartheid police massacred 69 people in Sharpeville in 1960, the revulsion spread as far as northern England.
(15) Tony Abbott says the world should be “filled with revulsion” at the news a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying at least 23 Australians was reportedly shot down in Ukraine on Thursday.
(16) Public revulsion at his actions played a decisive role in winning support for the lengthy campaign of peaceful civil disobedience led by Mahatma Gandhi which culminated in Indian independence in 1947.
(17) Today, in a sudden revulsion against market economics he is penalising buy-to-let investors – and their tenants.
(18) In 2010 the director of Rivarol , Jérôme Bourgon, told Le Monde : “For me Marine Le Pen is a demon , an absolute enemy from all points of view … It’s total revulsion, which is in fact reciprocal.” Marine has called on her father to fall on his sword and step out of the political ring.
(19) In May, two girls in Uttar Pradesh state found hanging from a tree had been gang-raped in a case that sparked public revulsion.
(20) I remember the embarrassment, the discomfort, at the lascivious drool coming from his chops, and the physical revulsion at his presumed erection from looking at a girl pretty much the same as me, but without the school uniform and with probably fewer chances in life.