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Meanings of loathsome in English
Causing or able to cause nausea.
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Examples for "wicked"
Examples for "wicked"
1
They suggested romances: lovers in the forests; knights in armor; wicked enchantresses.
2
The happiness of the just and the evil state of the wicked.
3
And these indulge in subtleties in order to excuse the most wicked.
4
But in the torment of Hell shall the wicked remain for ever:
5
And I learned things all right, she said with a wicked smile.
1
Otherwise it could fall foul of fair trade and state aid rules.
2
He played 35 minutes Friday night despite a stretch in foul trouble.
3
Senior guard Devonte' Graham added 16 points while dealing with foul trouble.
4
Police said there was no sign of forced entry or foul play.
5
However, the Phoenix police say there were no signs of foul play.
1
The room was drab, disgusting; he wanted to get out of it.
2
The girls said afterward, in recounting the scene, it was simply disgusting.
3
All at once the poignant and disgusting attack of the insects ceased.
4
It is disgusting, heart-rending; sometimes I fear my own energies are waning.
5
Nothing is more disgusting than a face broken out in pus-filled pimples.
1
Jensen nodded, although she thought the truth, however distasteful, was always preferable.
2
I think that whole Married At First Sight concept is quite distasteful.
3
There was something in the idea which was thoroughly distasteful to him.
4
A resolution that is, perhaps, distasteful, but may also be only just.
5
The double standard in this shape is not distasteful to the boys.
1
The idea of suicide was revolting to the vigor of his manhood.
2
Pleasure-seeking was universal, and even revolting in the sports of the Amphitheatre.
3
It was arresting, revolting, terrible; it must have compelled in any case.
4
The tones of the clergyman were no longer revolting in his ears.
5
They seemed strangely cynical; there was something revolting in his deepening calmness.
1
The repellent effect was accompanied by a significant insecticidal effect on sandflies.
2
So insect repellent, first aid kits, medicine and mosquito nets would help.
3
Good on crackers but can function equally well as an amorous-skunk repellent.
4
At first the idea of underground homes was completely repellent to him.
5
She uses it sparingly; repellent, like everything else, is in short supply.
1
There had been the engrossment of transcendent emotion in repelling the charge.
2
At the beginning of the last century the latter were considered repelling.
3
With the help of the repelling machine and by changing our course.
4
Certainly we have been fairly successful so far in repelling their counter-attacks.
5
Save repelling Dumnorix and Ahenobarbus, I never struck a blow in anger.
1
If climbing before September, be sure to bring plenty of insect repellant.
2
Mr Davies says they use industrial ethanol, methanol and even insect repellant.
3
At least the repellant was still keeping the gnats at bay .
4
She raised a hand with a repellant gesture towards the other men.
5
Powerful, repellant, this prelude is almost infernal in its pride and scorn.
1
These insects were of an immense size, and of a loathly aspect.
2
Ad is a loathly little word, but we must come to it.
3
The next moment the loathly vehicle was seen coming along the Old Bailey.
4
She was unconscious of the loathly business the Colonel was transacting.
5
I am the breathing impersonation of that loathly thing, I believe.
1
I haven't been to see her yet, she still feels too yucky.
2
If they were yucky, I just pretended I was licking a letter.
3
It was puffy and red, and scabby and sore, and altogether yucky.
4
You forget all this yucky stuff, and it's really not so bad.
5
He liked to kiss open mouth but he tasted yucky like cigars.
1
The woolly red socks and checkered shirt are the skanky sleeping student.
2
It can get a little skanky in there, but it's OK.
3
I couldn't stand to think of myself wearing one of his skanky girlfriend's outfits.
4
Someone spilled beer on my jeans in that skanky bar.
5
They talked about boys and music and which Hollywood actress was starting to look skanky.
1
But that did not detract from the pervading sensation of disgustful grubbiness.
2
No favouritism can sustain a ministry which has become disgustful to the nation.
3
Above all things, a speaker should guard against affectation, which is always disgustful.
4
He turned from the memory as from sight of some disgustful deformity or disease.
5
No one has hitherto claimed this disgustful and perilous situation.
Usage of loathsome in English
1
The whole place seemed to him hideous and loathsome in the extreme.
2
The oysters had a terrible look in their eyes and were loathsome.
3
The day brought forth another loathsome fact in connection with the case.
4
That we're in debt, owe hundreds of pounds, the whole loathsome truth.
5
So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.
6
The heartlessness of the common type of sportsman was loathsome to him.
7
One could not see the play at all through the loathsome acting.
8
The light of his words makes my sin blacker and more loathsome.
9
I dressed loathsome sores and wounds, and gave remedies to the sick.
10
It was like a chapter from the inferno-anepic of loathsome tragedy.
11
There he died the loathsome and lingering death that all lepers die.
12
His furry sides felt somehow too slick, too thick-in a word, loathsome.
13
He laid His hand on the loathsome leper from whom all shrank.
14
I found my work very hard, and some of it even loathsome.
15
And by traveling to Hammerfall, Skylan could escape his wife's loathsome presence.
16
The creatures had been loathsome enough in the context of the laboratory.
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