loathly

¹

[lohth-lee, lohth-]

adverb

1. reluctantly; unwillingly.

loathly

²

[lohth-lee, lohth-]

adjective

Archaic.

1. loathsome; hideous; repulsive.

loathly

¹

/ ˈləʊθlɪ /

adverb

1. with reluctance; unwillingly

loathly

²

/ ˈləʊðlɪ /

adjective

1. an archaic word for loathsome

Word History and Origins

Origin of loathly¹

before 1000; Middle English lothliche, Old English lāthlīce. See loath, -ly (adv. suffix)

Origin of loathly²

before 900; Middle English lothlic ( e ), Old English lāthlīc. See loath, -ly (adj. suffix)

Example Sentences

As if he thinks I am not loathly, as though he does not find my mortality contagious.

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She had re-membered the stories of her childhood, the most loathly and ancient bugaboo her nurse had ever frightened her with.

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And besides this Nature hath given unto man a countenance not terrible and loathly, as unto other brute beasts; but meek and demure, representing the very tokens of love and benevolence.

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Appalled by this vivid resemblance, and seeing before her an apparently endless continuance of a similar loathly landscape, Fidunia's trembling and really wearied limbs refused to carry her farther.

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For if they brought her here, if they confronted him with her, how loathly a figure he must cut even in his own eyes!

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