LOATHE in a Sentence
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73 example sentences for LOATHE, such as:
1. He was loath to admit his mistake.
2. She loathed the sight of greasy food.
3. I loathe and fear him more than I can say.
4. The little girl was loath to leave her mother.
5. I loathe and hate it now, but I cannot leave it.
2. She loathed the sight of greasy food.
3. I loathe and fear him more than I can say.
4. The little girl was loath to leave her mother.
5. I loathe and hate it now, but I cannot leave it.
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Meanings and Examples of LOATHE
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loathe
v. dislike greatly; hate; cause to dislike or avoid
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1 The letters cut in the stained wood of the desk stared upon him, mocking his bodily weakness and futile enthusiasms and making him loathe himself for his own mad and filthy orgies.
2 They will remember all this and loathe themselves and their sins.
3 I was, in fact, beginning to shudder at the presence of this being, this Un-Dead, as Van Helsing called it, and to loathe it.
4 I loathe and hate it now, but I cannot leave it.
5 I loathe and fear him more than I can say.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
6 You loathe them as you would a snake or a toad, yet you are indignant at their wrongs.
7 He shook the sound out of his ears by an angry toss of his head and hurried on, stumbling through the mouldering offal, his heart already bitten by an ache of loathing and bitterness.
8 The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing.
9 Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something.
10 The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.
11 The desire and loathing excited by improper esthetic means are really not esthetic emotions not only because they are kinetic in character but also because they are not more than physical.
12 This word, though it is vague, is clear enough to keep away good and evil which excite desire and loathing.
13 At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight.
14 All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
15 There was something in its expression that filled him with disgust and loathing.
Example Sentence:
1 Our priorities are ignored, and what we loathe is being pursued instead.
2 People who took football too seriously aroused deep loathing in me.
3 The thought of him touching her filled her with deep loathing.
4 She found the snake repugnant and looked on it with loathing and fear.
5 He was loath to admit his mistake.
6 Children are very conservative where food is concerned, they are very loath to try anything out of the ordinary.
7 The little girl was loath to leave her mother.
8 The Japanese government was loath to recognize the problem, preferring to wait in hopes that its banking system would heal itself.
9 She loathed the sight of greasy food.
10 It was loathed by the Republican conservatives and the private-power interests.
11 To the Ayatolla, America and the West were anathema; he loathed the democratic nations, cursing them in his dying words.
12 Matilda, a brilliant mathematician and prodigious reader, is loathed by her benighted parents.