LOATHE


Meaning of LOATHE in English

verb

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cordially dislike/loathe etc

It was a happy day when it dawned on me that there was no actual impediment to my cordially disliking both lots.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Even after years of practice, he still loathed making public speeches.

I really loathe it when people make promises and then don't keep them.

If there's one thing I really loathe , it's long car journeys.

Kemp was loathed by all the other prisoners, who regarded him as a traitor.

Many conservatives loathe the current president.

Mrs Morel loathed her husband when he was drunk and violent.

She loathes spiders.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed.

But that distinction is incomprehensible here, where Tupac Amaru is generally loathed for its 12-year campaign of violence.

Fearful of Steve Jobs's loathing of slots, however, they kept things quiet.

From that time on, it seemed as though I loathed myself and looked for ways to punish my body.

He loathed the repressive State and the system which it supported.

Some of the Girls enjoyed such encounters; others loathed them: They were that cheeky.

They came from his years of moving from home to home in a city he loathed.

They were required to remain together in the public eye, but in reality loathed each other cordially.

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