How to Use loathing in a Sentence

loathing

noun

• She expressed her intense loathing of his hypocrisy.
• She regarded his hypocrisy with loathing.
• Loving and loathing, in the same place, at the same time.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2021
• The blend of love and loathing toward the show was, in a way, strange.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2021
• It’s about fear, loathing and pitfalls at the front door.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2020
• Those fears, those loathings of the stranger, never went away, of course.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• Self-loathing, and anger, and all of those highs and lows — of rage and putting my fist through a wall.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
• Or maybe the wrongness and the self-loathing—the whole bad-boy-on-the-rack routine—turn you on.
  — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 25 Apr. 2018
• They get lost in their fears and in old patterns of self-loathing.
  — Jerry Colonna, Quartz at Work, 14 June 2019
• His loathing of the press may not have been just fixed on the Capital.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• Is there no help for Jack out of his muddle of self-loathing?
  — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• The self-loathing and lashing out, the truth and the lies — are these worth exploring anew?
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Fear and loathing are apt descriptors for the site, where the rancor of the far-right thrives.
  — Bryan C. Parker, Chron, 1 Dec. 2020
• If the Red Sox start off slowly, Cora will be able to share the loathing.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
• Self-doubt and loathing hound her and at times overwhelm the reader.
  — Philly.com, 2 July 2017
• Nothing feels more right about X-Men ’97 than the loathing these men share.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2024
• The era of global free loathing, the president said is over.
  — Fox News, 28 June 2018
• Self-loathing might kick-start a diet, but self-love opens the pathway to health.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2021
• His tantrum is equal parts fury, self-loathing, and a desire for love and approval.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 21 Mar. 2017
• Dinklage gives you his appeal and his sense of self-loathing.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2021
• Wharton was consumed with grief and shame and self-loathing.
  — Matthew Van Meter, The New Republic, 17 June 2019
• The thinking behind these efforts does have a whiff of self-loathing to it, doesn’t it?
  — Vulture, 23 Feb. 2022
• Andres also shares Leo’s loathing for the Hard Rock Café.
  — Andrew Altschul, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• The film opens with a sequence that captures the fear and loathing of Monroe’s childhood.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
• The fear has hit hard, but the loathing could follow if things get really weird in the SEC over the new few weeks.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 12 Nov. 2020
• But compared to my knee-jerk process of judgment and self-loathing, RAIN is a big step up.
  — Anna Borges, SELF, 10 July 2020
• Some entrepreneurs view the prospect of a sales call with the same fear and loathing as having to face an IRS audit.
  — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021
• There will be no fear but plenty of loathing in Las Vegas.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• No wonder Elrond spent the next few hundred years of his life loathing men.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• Read: Sphere and loathing in Las Vegas One reason for this renaissance is the stultifying nature of listening to music in the era of streaming dominance.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024