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Loathsome
Definition:
(a.) Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
Example Sentences:
(1) (That diagnoses the figure of "loathsome Gluttony" in Spenser's The Faerie Queene , "Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so".)
(2) David Puttnam (who had previously worked with Stone on 1978's Midnight Express) labelled it "loathsome".
(3) Fry wrote: "I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathsome and inhumane.
(4) At times, their behaviour may border on loathsome, but a news team with a high-profile journalist at the helm is not the way to bring about justice.
(5) Back in London, I had word that Estella was betrothed to Bentley Drummle, a loathsome ne-er-do-well from my lunching club.
(6) The company, under the leadership of its loathsome chairman, Joseph Balterghen, wants greater access to the oilfields of Bessarabia (now Moldova), and sees regime change as a perfectly reasonable way to go about getting it - 70 years later, the scenario is all too grimly familiar.
(7) And no one told me that having a baby would make me even more loathsome – a hypocrite campaigning for gay rights while she herself has a husband!
(8) So it was then when Joan rang Barry, her wheelchair-using client at Avon, to tell them about the change in arrangements, she was quickly undermined by the loathsome Dennis Ford, who muscled into the conversation to dimly offer a round of golf at Augusta (of course it had to be Augusta ).
(9) He could be everything we said he was: immoral, loathsome, a son of a bitch.
(10) In December, he will return as the fierce and loathsome gold-crazed dragon Smaug in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
(11) In her 1963 novel A Summer Birdcage , Margaret Drabble’s narrator Sarah describes a “loathsome flat” in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and an “unspeakably sordid” place in Highgate.
(12) Over the past few months there have been plenty of stories to remind us how loathsome the internet can be to women or anyone else singled out for bullying.
(13) "He said 'I remember you, you came up to me at a party and said, 'You are the most loathsome creature that has ever crawled upon the earth, I despise every fibre of your body.'
(14) A recent post shows Bryan modelling a pair of blue-and-gold Just Cavalli leopardprint leggings and a Valentino clutch, the appeal of which, he explains, lies in having it " monogrammed with your initials ", making it, unusually for this loathsome day and age, where anyone can "pretty much get anything", "truly and only yours".
(15) Democrats became women-positive only after having the issue directly handed to them by people determined to support extremely beatable policies in as loathsome and horrifying a manner possible.
(16) They point to Bob Woodward's reporting from back in July 2011, when the loathsome pact was struck.
(17) In other words, it was in direct but non-violent opposition to the loathsome qualities that were deemed desirable, indeed compulsory, in society at large.
(18) Immigration minister Scott Morrison’s decisions are even more loathsome, because he hides his gleeful administration of Operation Sovereign Borders behind a range of military and parliamentary processes.
(19) As loathsome as it is for the franchise to impose this false identity, its name is even more vile, because it is rooted in the commodification of native skin and body parts as bounties and trophies.
(20) "What is happening shows us that we are absolutely right in fighting this loathsome regime," he said.