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Each tries to avoid what Lila loathingly describes as the problem of “dissolving margins,” when “the outlines of people and things suddenly dissolved, disappeared.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016

Frank’s policy legacy, as his friends said all day Monday, will rest on two pieces of legislation that voters either loathe, misunderstand, or loathingly misunderstand.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2011

He held his sword loathingly, and pushed the knight away.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

He attempted to embrace her, but she withdrew herself loathingly from his arms.

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

Then she took the hands away and looked at the money in them, loathingly.

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)