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loathly

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loath·ly  (ll, lth-)
adj.
Loathsome.
[Middle English lothly, from Old English lthlc : lth, hateful + -lc, like; see -ly1.]
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Adj.1.loathlyloathly - highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
foul, repelling, revolting, skanky, disgustful, disgusting, yucky, distasteful, loathsome, repellant, repellent, wicked
offensive - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"


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Then perhaps canst tell me the name of a great loathly lump of a brother wi' freckled face an' a hand like a spade.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Every article of furniture, from the chairs that came into the world with me and have worn so much better, though I was new and they were second-hand, to the mantle-border of fashionable design which she sewed in her seventieth year, having picked up the stitch in half a lesson, has its story of fight and attainment for her, hence her satisfaction; but she sighs at sight of her son, dipping and tearing, and chewing the loathly pen.
Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
For if you have not, you shall come back from loathly Hades and live with me and your father, the dark-clouded Son of Cronos and be honoured by all the deathless gods; but if you have tasted food, you must go back again beneath the secret places of the earth, there to dwell a third part of the seasons every year: yet for the two parts you shall be with me and the other deathless gods.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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