LOATHSOME in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for LOATHSOME, such as:

1. It was a sham and a loathsome mockery.
2. Something loathsome stirred within me.
3. And this life suddenly seemed to Pierre unexpectedly loathsome.
4. It is loathsome to remember it all, but it was loathsome even then.
5. His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOATHSOME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
loathsome
 a.  highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
2  The fact that a black scoundrel is allowed to live and utter such loathsome and repulsive calumnies is a volume of evidence as to the wonderful patience of Southern whites.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
3  One was the neighbors saw the fellows here, another was, I was afraid I had contracted a loathsome disease, and still another was that I feared I might give birth to a Negro baby.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
4  It was a sham and a loathsome mockery.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  Spurning the loathsome object with his foot, he turned from it with the same indifference he would have quitted a brute carcass.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
6  The presence of the man was simply loathsome to George; and he felt only an impulse to get away from him, with as few words as possible.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  It is loathsome to remember it all, but it was loathsome even then.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
8  It was loathsome sometimes to go to the office; things reached such a point that I often came home ill.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
9  One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
10  Something loathsome stirred within me.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: V
11  They have become utterly vile, and nothing on earth is viler, more loathsome, and more insulting than their abuse.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
12  And this life suddenly seemed to Pierre unexpectedly loathsome.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
13  I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome yet appalling hideousness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence:
1  Such loathsome racial restrictions were never part of the fundamental definition of marriage.