Lahiri is way too witty to be an actual ditz (see her failed romance with a skater bro, guest star Timothy Olyphant: "My body is very attracted to your body but when you speak, my brain gets angry"), and too optimistically hopeful to be truly loathsome.
The countryside always looks loathsome, in an undescribed kind of way.
Iris Robinson, a former DUP MP and the wife of the party's leader, described homosexuality as "disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, wicked and vile", as well as an "abomination" that could be "cured".
Jihadist militancy has a record of evolving for the worse, and the especially loathsome tactics of Islamic State may inject a new radicalism into Pakistan's already ferocious militant groups.
Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, denounced the murder as "loathsome" and called on all sides "not to take the law into their own hands".
Mr Diamond thinks this idea is "loathsome and wrong".
HOWEVER loathsome his neighbours find Kim Jong Il, the nuclear-armed North Korean dictator, most admit that beneath the big hair lurks the mind of a tactical genius with a flair for survival.
There had always been those who found smoking "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs," as James I put it in 1604.
Perhaps that breakfast is a good metaphor; some people, not happy with saying "Ulysses" is not to their taste, must pronounce it loathsome.
Instead of spending a loathsome afternoon with a salesman, customers of Auto-by-Tel, the leading Internet car-buying service, simply tell the service what kind of car they want, and wait for nearby dealerships to make their best offer.
"FEW countries have ended up with a planning system as loathsome as ours," says Tony Travers, a planning expert at the London School of Economics.
