Sentence examples for loathing from inspiring English sources
The word "loathing" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe intense hatred or a feeling of disgust. For example, "The students had a loathing for their math teacher's strict grading policies."
noun
Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.
- The man's loathing of his former friend was palpable
Love it or loathe it – and many loved it, while loathing the £15 admission fee – we've got Anish Kapoor's Orbit (top) for keeps.
On those occasions I was filled with loathing.
Gay marriage has become a proxy for other undisciplined craziness running through their veins, from hunting to Europe, privatising the NHS to breaking up the BBC, loathing windmills, loving fracking.
Christopher Shinn, a playwright who had a below-the-knee amputation, describes the act of watching a disabled character being played by an actor who we know is really fit and well as allowing society's "fear and loathing around disability" to be "magically transcended".
In most people the Hell's Angels strike a chord of fear, loathing, and anger: they personify everything that is wrong with modern youth, the permissive society, and Dr Spock.
But I happened to look across the table at Leigh, and there was this mixture of loathing and contempt and pure rage on her face.
George's parents never actually spell out that they think he's gay (it's even hinted at one point they think he's got HIV) but the old cliches/truths of self-loathing, estrangement and awkward acceptance are lovingly played out within their cosy suburbia.
"This is where my self-loathing comes from," he says.
While he didn't experience self-loathing following his crime, he's discovered it now.
Cameron has looked medically exhausted since about February, Clegg has become so utterly submerged in self-loathing that he now spends his days reading horrible tweets about himself out loud and Miliband has already lost the strength of mind to realise that carving vaguely worded platitudes into a limestone slab is the very stupidest thing that any human being has ever suggested.
Of course the show is a comedy, so it doesn't bother with the typically gloomy out-of-the-closet story standards like self-loathing or familial rejection (Amy has a southern conservative mother and a wicked step-sister who believes in salvation, but they are only really portrayed as irritants, and she seems to enjoy provoking them).
