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 | Jgoodman@al.com, 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 | Jgoodman@al.com, 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
  • The cocaine led to even more exhaustion, depression and ultimately self loathing.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 July 2024
  • Ariana and Tom are still living together despite loathing each other.
    Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2024

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