loathful

American  

[lohth-fuhl] / ˈloʊð fəl /

adjective

1. Scot. bashful; reluctant.

2. hateful; loathsome.

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Other Word Forms

• unloathful
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of loathful

First recorded in 1400–50, loathful is from the late Middle English word lothfull. See loath, -ful

Example Sentences

The son his granddam found to him most loathful; heads she had nine hundred.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson

It is not to Edmund alone that the Gainer is loathful.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)

At the word, Goodman Brown stepped forth from the shadow of the trees and approached the congregation, with whom he felt a loathful brotherhood by the sympathy of all that was wicked in his heart.

From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She stood, as loathful to refuse, To muse for full a moment's time,— Then answered back in pantomime 'She feared some danger from the sea Were she discovered thus with me.'

From Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 by Riley, James Whitcomb

Then something cold, slimy, horrible, ran over his face, and the loathful thrill he felt shocked him into reality.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman