loathe
verb (used with object)
to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor.
had loathed
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past perfectof loathe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — The game-winning play was one that Trevor Lawrence had loathed for weeks.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2019
That lasted for about 15 minutes, during which we meet the newly widowed Edie, an abrasive octogenarian, and learn exactly how much she had loathed the disabled husband she had spent 30 years caring for.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2019
Reluctantly, Beach embraced the idea he had loathed at the start, and he proposed steam power for his tunnel.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
The charge immediately went viral, fueled by the intriguing dual facts that Mr. White had loathed Mr. McQueen’s film, and that both men are black.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2014
He had loathed Snape from their first encounter, but Snape had placed himself forever and irrevocably beyond the possibility of Harry’s forgiveness by his attitude toward Sirius.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
