loathly
1 Americanadverb
adjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
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
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As if he thinks I am not loathly, as though he does not find my mortality contagious.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
She had re-membered the stories of her childhood, the most loathly and ancient bugaboo her nurse had ever frightened her with.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
And off the beauteous tresses fell; The tender waist that was so slim, In loathly sort was seen to swell, Shrivell’d and shrank each comely limb.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
Might not anyone turn pale when accused of so hateful and loathly a thing as is that of which those men were being accused?'
From The Red Cross Barge by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Do you remember the loathly Imogen and her 'radiant goodness,' and how she stood 'forth in the light'?
From The Setons by O. Douglas
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