verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cordially dislike/loathe etc
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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
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Even after years of practice, he still loathed making public speeches.
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I really loathe it when people make promises and then don't keep them.
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If there's one thing I really loathe , it's long car journeys.
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Kemp was loathed by all the other prisoners, who regarded him as a traitor.
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Many conservatives loathe the current president.
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Mrs Morel loathed her husband when he was drunk and violent.
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She loathes spiders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed.
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But that distinction is incomprehensible here, where Tupac Amaru is generally loathed for its 12-year campaign of violence.
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Fearful of Steve Jobs's loathing of slots, however, they kept things quiet.
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From that time on, it seemed as though I loathed myself and looked for ways to punish my body.
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He loathed the repressive State and the system which it supported.
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Some of the Girls enjoyed such encounters; others loathed them: They were that cheeky.
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They came from his years of moving from home to home in a city he loathed.
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They were required to remain together in the public eye, but in reality loathed each other cordially.