LOATHSOME in a Sentence

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Spurning the loathsome object with his foot, he turned from it with the same indifference he would have quitted a brute carcass.

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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.