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Meanings of loathsome in English

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust.

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Causing or able to cause nausea.

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Highly detestable. (Source: IPDF)

Usage of loathsome in English
1
The whole place seemed to him hideous and loathsome in the extreme.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
2
The oysters had a terrible look in their eyes and were loathsome.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
3
The day brought forth another loathsome fact in connection with the case.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
4
That we're in debt, owe hundreds of pounds, the whole loathsome truth.
The ginger man
5
So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.
Mockingjay
6
The heartlessness of the common type of sportsman was loathsome to him.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
7
One could not see the play at all through the loathsome acting.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
8
The light of his words makes my sin blacker and more loathsome.
Trumps
9
I dressed loathsome sores and wounds, and gave remedies to the sick.
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
10
It was like a chapter from the inferno-anepic of loathsome tragedy.
A Lost Leader
11
There he died the loathsome and lingering death that all lepers die.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
12
His furry sides felt somehow too slick, too thick-in a word, loathsome.
Pet Sematary
13
He laid His hand on the loathsome leper from whom all shrank.
From Jest to Earnest
14
I found my work very hard, and some of it even loathsome.
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reube...
15
And by traveling to Hammerfall, Skylan could escape his wife's loathsome presence.
Bones of the Dragon
16
The creatures had been loathsome enough in the context of the laboratory.
The dog said bow-wow
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