loathsome
adjective
causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive.
loathsomeness
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a word derived from
loathsome.
Example Sentences
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Some fans of the first season took a while to warm to it—a measure, perhaps, of the characters’ loathsomeness.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 14, 2019
But forgive me if, as a guy, I take particular offense at his attempt to conscript me and mine as conspirators in his loathsomeness, to make us guys human shields for his repugnant juvenility.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2016
Craving and predicting the manner of Ramsay’s end had become an online parlor game in recent weeks, a testament to the sublime loathsomeness Mr. Rheon cultivated in Ramsay.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2016
But as gross and loathsome as this whole thing is, what if we didn’t add to the grossness and loathsomeness of it?
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2015
At the time, it was to me only a seething, dimly phosphorescent cloud of fungous loathsomeness, enveloping and dissolving to an abhorrent plasticity the one object on which all my attention was focussed.
From The Shunned House by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
