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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

Oh, how loathsomely lazy and indifferent he had been, now that he looked back on it all!

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

All cooking was done ashore at a cookhouse that was loathsomely dirty.

From Looking Seaward Again by Runciman, Walter

The scene in the hospital, where the fingers without finger-nails clasp the mighty hand in the rubber glove, is as loathsomely horrible as anything to be found in the annals of disease.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

A scourge of great black crickets appeared, crackling loathsomely under the wheels.

From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson