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How to use loathe in a sentence

31 example sentences · verb

Loathe means to detest, hate, or revile (someone or something). Example: “I loathe scrubbing toilets.”

Examples of loathe by meaning

verbTo detest, hate, or revile (someone or something).

  • I loathe scrubbing toilets.
  • I absolutely loathe this place.
  • This movie is a historical achievement: Clint Eastwood, an icon of violence, has made us loathe violence as an obscenity.2003 October 13, The New Yorker

More sentences with loathe

  • Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.From the entry report
  • Sure, the City loathed the old Labour Party that Jeremy Corbyn grew up with but they loved the Blairites.From the entry Labour Party
  • She loathed lying by avoiding saying 'her' or 'him' to let people assume.2025, Sophia Kelly, People of the Rock. From the entry pronoun dance
  • Really, no joke, because trans men are very loathed to use public toilets.2020, Joseph N. Goh, Becoming a Malaysian Trans Man: Gender, Society, Body and Faith, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry loathed
  • As much as I loathed what the show turned into, we did get TBTWP.2019 June 23, Escobarhippo, Reddit. From the entry TBTWP
  • “Physical punishment is something I’m very loathed to resort to,” Steve responded.2018, Morgan Bruce, Crowns: Alexei, Accidental Angel—Book 6, →ISBN, page 274. From the entry loathed
  • I loathe reviews in which a critic claims to have love-hate feelings about a work of art.2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry love-hate
  • He’d hated it before, but after recent events he abso-flipping-lutely loathed it now.2013, Jonathan Meres, The World of Norm: May Be Contagious, Orchard. From the entry absoflippinglutely
  • But I don't like her even once—I loathe her thrice!” protested the Jester.2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like. From the entry like like
  • Cadets loathe SAMIs because they are the most stringent of all inspections.2010, Terron Sims, With Honor in Hand, page 32. From the entry Sami
  • Although I'm attracted toward supermasculinity in humans, I loathe supermasculinity in art.1982, Winston Leyland, Gay Sunshine Interviews, volume 2, page 196. From the entry supermasculinity
  • "Though her crow hair is lovely and wavy, she loathes it and craves yellow locks.1945, George Marsh, Ask No Quarter, New York, W. Morrow & Company. From the entry crow
  • He loathed them in all the languages he could lay his tongue to.1923, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 12, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, page 262. From the entry lay one's tongue to
  • I was so afraid we'd have a green Christmas and I loathe them.1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 7, in Anne of the Island, New York: A. L. Burt, page 74. From the entry grayey
  • If you love the sea but loathe the thought of hobnobbing in Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket is your place.2017 April 2, Tara Donaldson, “5 quiet U.S. coastal towns that offer a seaside escape”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2026. From the entry Nantucket
  • Chris Moyles (love him or loathe him, you've got to loathe him) is on hand for laddishness, Stacey Solomon for ladettishness.2012 March 12, Sam Wollaston, “TV review: The Love Machine; Take Me Out; Come Date With Me”, in The Guardian, archived from the original…. From the entry ladettishness
  • Your bass teacher loathed you for loathing the instrument.2010, Joan Wickersham, “The Boys’ School, or The News from Spain”, in Sven Birkerts, editor, AGNI, number 72, Boston, Mass.: Boston…. From the entry plunk
  • But for a second, anyway, I could imagine what it’s like to be among the Limbaugh-Cheney deadenders who loathe Obama.2009 May 3, Frank Rich, “Enough With the 100 Days Already”, in New York Times. From the entry deadender
  • Her son took his stepfather's name, though he loathed him.2007 February 13, Tim Hilton, “Obituary: Jules Olitski”, in The Guardian. From the entry Snovsk
  • I loathe mentioning the name to anyone from there.2003 July 11, Larry G, “Re: Another contrastive focus reduplication”, in alt.english.usage (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry UKGBNI
  • Allied pilots feared and loathed these, because a hit from a flaming onion instantly turned an aeroplane into an inferno.1985, Robert Harrison, Aviation Lore in Faulkner, page 116. From the entry flaming onion
  • And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so.1984, Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (Canadian Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10. From the entry pogey
  • “Sept. 11th stopped all alternative female voices in their tracks, because when people get scared, they get conservative and what does a conservative society loathe?2025 June 2, Lizzy Goodman, quoting Shirley Manson, “Shirley Manson, the Unexpected Godmother of Rock”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry in one's tracks
  • He is a college professor who drinks heavily, suffers from terrible psoriatic arthritis and seems to loathe everything about what’s become of his life.2008 June 8, Hugo Lindgren, “Life With Father”, in New York Times. From the entry psoriatic
  • But on one major point, neo-Luddites agree: They would loathe computerization even if hordes of unwitting neo-Luddites hadn't suddenly made technophobia so trendy.1995 July, Bob Ickes, “Die, Computer, Die!”, in New York, →ISSN, page 24. From the entry technophobia
  • By its help parents and proparents were able to bring the youths into the very presence of the loathed deceit without submitting them to the chance of contagion.2025, Ron Miller, Alan Orloff, Tom Milani, Black Cat Weekly #204, page 961. From the entry telacoustic
  • Later, when William suggests that “the desire for children is hardwired,” Otto goes off on another antisemantic rant: “Hardwired.” You know, that's a term I've really come to loathe!2023, Peter Turchi, (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before, page 107. From the entry antisemantic
  • There are adherents of each of the four French parties—Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans—in this little mountain-town; and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other.1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 1”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. From the entry calumniate

Meaning of loathe

  1. verb To detest, hate, or revile (someone or something).
  2. verb To induce or inspire disgust (in a person).

Full definition of loathe

Questions about loathe in a sentence

How do you use loathe in a sentence?
Loathe is used as a verb. For example: “I loathe scrubbing toilets.”
What is a short sentence with loathe?
“I loathe scrubbing toilets.”
What does loathe mean?
Loathe means to detest, hate, or revile (someone or something).

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