Crossword clues for loathing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loathing \Loath"ing\, n. Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.
The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races.
--Macaulay.
Loathe \Loathe\ (l[=o][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loathed (l[=o][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Loathing.] [AS. l[=a][eth]ian to hate. See Loath.]
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To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread.
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To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate; to detest.
The secret which I loathe.
--Waller.She loathes the vital sir.
--Dryden.Syn: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"abhorrence," mid-14c., verbal noun from loathe.
Wiktionary
n. Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike. vb. (present participle of loathe English)
WordNet
n. hate coupled with disgust [syn: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, odium]
Usage examples of "loathing".
She had flushed dark crimson, and Pentwere and Assai were again staring at Semerket with loathing.
Out of the mists he thought he glimpsed Astasia, hovering like a Snow Spirit, dark eyes staring down at him in horror and loathing.
I have spoken of Esmer, who professes to be the son of Cail and the Dancers of the Sea, and whose dark puissance concerns and dismays even the ur-viles, despite their ancient loathing for the Land.
I sat in the darkness while the unknown thing at my feet ripped the flesh from his half-dead rival in strips, and across the damp night wind came the reek of that abominable feast--the reek of blood and spilt entrails--until I turned away my face in loathing, and was nearly starting to my feet to venture a rush into the forest shadows.
I was delighted to hear that my infamous turnkey was outside, for since his explanation of the iron collar I had looked an him with loathing.
He had been begotten without love, without beauty, tenderness, magic, or any nobleness of spirit, by the idiot, blind hunger of a lust so vile that it knew no loathing for filth, stench, foulness, haggish ugliness, and asked for nothing better than a bag of guts in which to empty out the accumulations of its brutish energies.
The girl giggled at a certain crucial moment and he felt sudden loathing, felt sick and filthy, hating her, hating himself for what he had done.
Just behind the village, and in sight of the van der Heyl house, is a steep hill crowned with a peculiar ring of ancient standing stones which the Iroquois always regarded with fear and loathing.
Lile and the servant with the tray bearing down on her and she groaned aloud, more from exasperation than from the loathing she felt when she laid eyes on Lile once more.
Famished and homeless, loathed and loathing, wild, And hating good--for his immortal foe, He changed from starry shape, beauteous and mild, To a dire Snake, with man and beast unreconciled.
O, to spare her pain, And let not his loathing her loathliness vain Mirror too plain, Sadly, sighingly, Almost dyingly, Turned he and kissed her once and again.
Again, Mapes cast a piercing stare at the oval door, and Jessica thought she detected loathing in the expression.
Lyons could feel his anger rising the more he dwelt on the situation, and meshing with his fatigue and hunger, the loathing became so strong he felt his musdes knotting with the cumulative tension.
Craigmillar, he started up in bed, so that the taffeta slipped from his face, and it was with difficulty that she dissembled the loathing with which the sight of its pustules inspired her.
He pushed himself up on his elbows, loathing the separation, entranced at the softness peeling from his skin and reblooming immediately of its own accord.