: extreme disgust : detestation
She regarded his hypocrisy with loathing.
Examples of loathing in a Sentence
She expressed her intense loathing of his hypocrisy.
She regarded his hypocrisy with loathing.
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At the opening, Natalie, bored and filled with loathing for her parents, flees her family home by retreating into imaginary worlds of vivid, eroticized violence.
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Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
There’s an aspect of self-loathing here that Visser leaves alone.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Gemini spirals Google’s Gemini model series has developed a reputation online for occasionally devolving into self-loathing.
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That was the joy of the movie, the tone of that character with all that self-loathing.
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Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
There’s an aspect of self-loathing here that Visser leaves alone.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Gemini spirals Google’s Gemini model series has developed a reputation online for occasionally devolving into self-loathing.
—Tharin Pillay, Time, 28 Dec. 2025
That was the joy of the movie, the tone of that character with all that self-loathing.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
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“Loathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loathing. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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