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

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

From Project Gutenberg

The path was hidden by the thorny briars; The golden haunts, burned by the midday sun; An earthquake brought the wonder palace low; And now amidst the ruins and ashes, I Am left alone and palsy-stricken; snakes And lizards, pains and hatreds dwell now here In constant loathful brotherhood with me.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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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.'

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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.

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