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Meanings of loathly in English

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust.

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      1
      These insects were of an immense size, and of a loathly aspect.
      The Bible in Spain / Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonm...
      2
      Ad is a loathly little word, but we must come to it.
      Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
      3
      The next moment the loathly vehicle was seen coming along the Old Bailey.
      Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
      4
      She was unconscious of the loathly business the Colonel was transacting.
      Captain Blood
      5
      I am the breathing impersonation of that loathly thing, I believe.
      Miriam Monfort / A Novel
      6
      If so, the creature must have been a right loathly monster.
      Town Geology
      7
      With that she kissed the loathly demon full on the lips, and left him.
      English Fairy Tales
      8
      And perhaps not one a day deserved death so much as that loathly fellow.
      Five Tales
      9
      She flung out her hands as if pushing some loathly, invisible thing from her.
      Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
      10
      Hear, all of you loathly horrors, you lurking terrors-makeway.
      The Way of the Wild
      11
      But perhaps Frank might be won from his loathly practice.
      The Wrong Twin
      12
      Kundry, the loathly damsel and siren, has her prototypes in classic fable and romantic tale.
      A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
      13
      I hoped she would have escaped the polluting touch of those loathly attendants on the dead-cart.
      Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
      14
      A sick disgust clutched at Rose as she watched-anutter revulsion from the whole loathly business.
      The Real Adventure
      15
      It was a raging torrent of whirlpools, they said, full of poisonous serpents and loathly monsters.
      This Country of Ours
      16
      All this time, Sherkan was watching them and laughing at the loathly favour of the old woman.
      The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
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