You were made to feel that this was a sinister and loathsome word that struck terror in everyone, except in children, of course, since "why" was always their favorite word.
His account in De Profundis was less triumphant: "It was when, in my library at Tite Street, waving his small hands in the air in epileptic fury, your father... stood uttering every foul word his foul mind could think of, and screaming the loathsome threats he afterwards with such cunning carried out".
Its a disgusting, horrid, loathsome book.
Equally loathsome to him are the words "flick," "freebie," "cyberspace," "progressive" and "zeitgeist," and abbreviated street designations like "59th and Lex".
I saw the massive danger of the Swift Boat attack the moment that Drudge flashed word of the forthcoming book on his loathsome front page.
He is Jewish, and much of what was said of him at the rally was, to borrow a word from Governor Paterson, loathsome.
His career is ruined, and it's a loathsome section of the book.
Donald Trump's words and actions are, obviously, loathsome towards women.
"The most loathsome person in the world is not the woman who writes exotic words, but those sanctimonious men!" wrote one contributor to a discussion page.
In other words, it was in direct but non-violent opposition to the loathsome qualities that were deemed desirable, indeed compulsory, in society at large.
