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How to use loathing in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Loathing means sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike. Example: “The man's loathing of his former friend was palpable; you could feel how much he now hated him.”

Examples of loathing by meaning

nounSense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.

  • The man's loathing of his former friend was palpable; you could feel how much he now hated him.

More sentences with loathing

  • His own insecurities drive him to double-mindedly worship his wife, while at the same time, loathing her.2013, Angela Powers Flippen, Diary of an Unlikely Warrior: A Practical Guide for Spiritual Warfare, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry double-mindedly
  • Disgust, nausea, loathing—some aspects of yourself and others surely deserve such abhorrent gut responses.2005, David Deida, Blue Truth. From the entry unlove
  • Surprise, horror, loathing were depicted on all faces while he eyed them with a ghostly grin.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry eldritch
  • Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 91. From the entry psychopathology
  • 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
  • Ned acquired the rudiments of orthography, geometry, piscatology, a phrase or two of French, and a profound loathing for the Classics.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 40. From the entry piscatology
  • He found that they were not cannibals—that they looked with loathing and contempt upon men who ate men.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 127. From the entry cannibal
  • Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing.1913, Equinox: The Review of Scientific Illuminism. From the entry manyhood
  • His name, infamous now, would have an additional horror, and ever be remembered by posterity in unspeakable loathing, in unsoftening wrath.1906, Zane Grey, The Spirit of the Border. From the entry unsoftening
  • They believe that only those with an appropriate loathing of wokeism and a sneering contempt for consensus can see things for what they really are.2024 March 15, Radley Balko, “The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers”, in The UnPopulist, archived from the…. From the entry heterodoxist
  • Arguments about the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor . . . underpinned the popular fear and loathing of the workhouse that endure in folk memory.2011 October 18, Peter Beresford, “Harassing people on benefits degrades us all”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 08 Jun 2014. From the entry folk memory
  • By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing.2010, Johann Hari, How Goldman Gambled on Starvation. From the entry rock-bottom
  • Old John was mixing Old Fashioneds and every now and then he would turn and stare at the record case with an expression of great loathing.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 43. From the entry old-fashioned
  • His first cure had been in a large, slummy parish in East London—a nasty, hooliganish place it had been, and he looked back on it with loathing.1935, George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter. From the entry hooliganish
  • We drank martinis, while she gazed into my eyes and talked of Dolores – in tones of the utmost loathing – and of you, in tones of the utmost self-importance.2011, Simone de Beauvoir, “January 1947 – October 1951: America”, in Quintin Hoare, transl., Letters to Sartre, New York, N.Y.: Arcade…. From the entry utmost

Meaning of loathing

  1. noun Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.

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Questions about loathing in a sentence

How do you use loathing in a sentence?
Loathing is used as a noun. For example: “The man's loathing of his former friend was palpable; you could feel how much he now hated him.”
What is a short sentence with loathing?
“Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive.”
What does loathing mean?
Loathing means sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.

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