: extreme disgust : detestation
She regarded his hypocrisy with loathing.
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Examples of loathing in a Sentence
She expressed her intense loathing of his hypocrisy.
She regarded his hypocrisy with loathing.
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With regard to Lyle, who with younger brother Erik is serving life without the possibility of parole for the murders of their parents, that feeling toggles wildly between sympathy and loathing.
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Charlie Mason, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2024
The panic engulfing the Nixon White House — and its loathing for Ellsberg — would be captured in Oval Office tapes.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
Yet the Seventies throwbacks provide a way to complicate all that intra-generational loathing.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2024
While the memoirs of senior CIA managers like Helms and Colby recall Schlesinger with unqualified loathing, this was not true of the lower orders.
—Christopher R. Moran, Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2017
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Charlie Mason, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2024
The panic engulfing the Nixon White House — and its loathing for Ellsberg — would be captured in Oval Office tapes.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
Yet the Seventies throwbacks provide a way to complicate all that intra-generational loathing.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2024
While the memoirs of senior CIA managers like Helms and Colby recall Schlesinger with unqualified loathing, this was not true of the lower orders.
—Christopher R. Moran, Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2017
See all Example Sentences for loathing
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“Loathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loathing. Accessed 9 Oct. 2024.
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