1
as in disgust
a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness
the sight of his mortal enemy getting that undeserved promotion filled him with loathing
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as in hatred
a very strong dislike
I have an uncompromising loathing for anyone who would deliberately harm an animal
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as in hateful
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as in hating
to dislike strongly
I simply loathe tapioca pudding
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Recent Examples of loathing
Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
America cannot regress back to a divisive paradigm of loathing toward one another and disdain for our Constitution.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Trump’s animus toward wind energy — surpassing even his loathing for California — dates from a losing battle a decade ago, when Scotland’s regional government built an 11-turbine wind farm in Aberdeen Bay near one of his golf courses.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
Just as Otis Elevators struggled to alleviate peoples’ fears of elevators in the late 1800s and early 1900s, there is similar fear and loathing of autonomous vehicles.
—Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Nobody who has been on the wild journey of fear and loathing that has sent this fine old club careering to unprecedented lows since Farhad Moshiri’s arrival, initially as co-owner, in 2016 could underestimate a single development anymore.
—Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
America cannot regress back to a divisive paradigm of loathing toward one another and disdain for our Constitution.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Trump’s animus toward wind energy — surpassing even his loathing for California — dates from a losing battle a decade ago, when Scotland’s regional government built an 11-turbine wind farm in Aberdeen Bay near one of his golf courses.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
Just as Otis Elevators struggled to alleviate peoples’ fears of elevators in the late 1800s and early 1900s, there is similar fear and loathing of autonomous vehicles.
—Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loathing
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Barrymore squeals in disgust after reaching into her pocket and pulling out a sandwich.Shyla Watson, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Many others have expressed condemnation and voiced disgust with those showing support for the alleged assassin.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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All of the hatred and violence of their relationship all culminated in this moment.Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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Criticism is never easy to take, especially when it’s buried under snarky memes and hateful trolling.Molly McPherson, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Four major neo-Nazi accounts on X unmasked An investigation this week in the Texas Observer names the people behind four influential accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that have shared hateful neo-Nazi and white supremacist content with millions of users.Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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His distaste for being on video, for instance, persists.Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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You’re still hampered by a distaste for obligation, but whatever.Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
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Evie, who has recently married another woman, is contemptuous of a religion that doesn’t hold space for her identity.Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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Reporters circle, looking for a chance to embarrass the military for accepting Black women into its ranks, while male colleagues are openly disrespectful, with Gen. Halt (Dean Norris) setting a contemptuous example from the top.Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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Yet feeling out of place has, ironically, brought Escola even closer to their Mary Todd Lincoln, whose fear that a scornful world might keep her offstage gives the show an unexpected pathos.Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
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The president has outlined a deeply misguided foreign policy vision that is distrustful of U.S. allies, scornful of international institutions, and indifferent, if not downright hostile, to the liberal international order that the United States has sustained for nearly eight decades.Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
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“Loathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loathing. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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