loathsome
adjective
causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive.
loathsomely
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a word derived from
loathsome.
Example Sentences
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Milton Berle runs Madman Mooney's Hubcap Heaven, a very used car lot, and Steve Martin is loathsomely realistic as a hostile waiter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ceiling was all too low: torpid spiders hung in disreputable parlors, dead to the eye, but loathsomely alive at an involuntary touch.
From Dead Men Tell No Tales by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
A scourge of great black crickets appeared, crackling loathsomely under the wheels.
From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
He gazes, and behold, one of these monsters separates itself off from the darkness, rises higher and higher, stands out more and more distinct, more and more loathsomely distinct….
From The Torrents of Spring by Constance Garnett
But something must have been wrong with my vision, for the loathsome thing fell loathsomely to the floor.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
