The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loathly \Loath"ly\ (l[=o]th"l[y^]), adv.
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Unwillingly; reluctantly.
This shows that you from nature loathly stray.
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(l[=o][th]"l[y^]) So as to cause loathing. [Obs.]
With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight.
--Fairfax.
Loathly \Loath"ly\ (l[=o][th]"l[y^]), a. [AS. l[=a][eth]lic.]
Loathsome. [Obs.] `` Loathly mouth.''
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. loathsome; hideous Etymology 2
adv. 1 In a loathsome manner; disgustingly. 2 unwillingly; reluctantly.
WordNet
adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
Usage examples of "loathly".
This brought a loathly fear in its train, and the gates of his heart stood ever wide to fear.
Dafydd was an old friend, almost as much so as Sir Brian, who was the closest thing to a blood brother that Jim had in this fourteenth-century world, after their battle at the Loathly Tower.
You are known as one of the heroes who conquered the Dark Powers at the Loathly Tower.
The first time it was the betrothed of Sir James stolen away to the Loathly Tower by a dragon of ill repute ensorceled by the Dark Powers there.
Dafydd, coolly shooting down each one that was closest with a single arrow, in the moment they appeared out of the thick, low-lying cloud overhead, level with the top of the tallest ruined spire of the Loathly Tower.
Arms awarded by King Edward to Jim as a sort of reward for the fight at the Loathly Tower.
Nearly all versions, including the one the de Mers had heard, had Jim going to London and asking permission of King Edward to go out and attack the creatures of the Loathly Tower.
Besides, Sir James Eckert was a popular name, particularly after the fight at the Loathly Tower, which was still being sung in England.
Baron James Eckert of Riveroak, just lately freed from his ensorcellment into the body of the dragon, after slaying an ogre at the Loathly Tower and defeating the Dark Powers who threatened us all.
Kundry, the loathly damsel and siren, has her prototypes in classic fable and romantic tale.
For when Cymochles saw the fowle reproch,Which them appeached, prickt with guilty shame,And inward griefe, he fiercely gan approch,Resolu'd to put away that loathly blame,Or dye with honour and desert of fame.
And on his collar laying puissant hand,Out of his wauering seat him pluckt perforse,Perforse him pluckt, vnable to withstand,Or helpe himselfe, and laying thwart her horse,In loathly wise like to a carion corse,She bore him fast away.
Therewith she spewd out of her filthy mawA floud of poyson horrible and blacke,Full of great lumpes of flesh and gobbets raw,Which stunck so vildly, that it forst him slackeHis grasping hold, and from her turne him backe:Her vomit full of bookes and papers was,With loathly frogs and toades, which eyes did lacke,And creeping sought way in the weedy gras:Her filthy parbreake all the place defiled has.
Great polypous horrors slid darkly past, and unseen bat wings beat multitudinous around him, but still he clung to the unwholesome mane of that loathly and hippocephalic scaled bird.
All the hideous fantastic tales of murder which he had read or heard seemed to take visible shape in the person of the loathly carcase before him, clad in the yellow dress of a convict, and lying flung together on the ground as though struck down.