How to Use loathsome in a Sentence
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Some of the most loathsome of its dictates aren’t even legal.
—Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2022
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Phoebe forces absinthe down his throat, and the one-percenters start competing to see who can be the most loathsome.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
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The hypocrisies were overwhelming; the business, loathsome.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
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The core of this loathsome assault is that Sohn serves on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
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Stewart once called Hannity the ‘‘most loathsome dude’’ at Fox News.
—Samantha Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
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The entire team knew the assignment would be both dangerous and loathsome for Owen.
—Carrie Teegardin, Doctors & Sex Abuse, 6 Jan. 2017
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The Safdies mine for what lies beneath Howard's loathsome behavior.
—Sonia Rao, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2019
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There are at least two tech geniuses who don't mind the loathsome dish-washing chore: Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
—Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 29 Dec. 2018
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Before his massive turnaround to become the heart and soul of the show Girls, his character was one of the most loathsome people on TV.
—Jordan Crucchiola, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2014
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The jokes are borne out of pure loathing, spat directly at loathsome people, with no moment of reprieve.
—Dave Holmes, Esquire, 6 Apr. 2017
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Her family is loathsome, her lifestyle is ridiculous, and her job is a joke.
—WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
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The self-importance of the Dallas Cowboys is never less than loathsome.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2022
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Marshall Chen was a loathsome man who everyone had reason to kill.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
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Strong's fans make their presence known for the lovably loathsome underdog.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
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Meanwhile, commuters with horror stories about plopping down on a CTA seat soaked with a loathsome liquid aren't hard to come by.
—John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 9 Oct. 2017
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Nothing will turn your heart a deeper shade of black than daily interactions with some of the most loathsome people on the planet.
—Chris Jones, Esquire, 31 Mar. 2011
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One of the most loathsome critiques of consent culture is that explicit consent takes the thrill out of seduction.
—Tina Horn, Allure, 23 Aug. 2017
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As the Web keeps expanding faster and faster, it’s become saturated with lies and errors and loathsome ideas.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
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Oh, the vulgarity, the venality, the small-minded nastiness of those loathsome souls now crowding the stage at the Duke on 42nd Street.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 1 June 2017
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The commercial aspects and government urging the killing along drove the force of loathsome buffalo killers.
—Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
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Or Kanye West's rapid descent into loathsome anti-semitism?
—Luke Winkie, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2022
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The most telling detail in the reports has been the absence of Ivanka Trump, the one person who seems intent on preserving the value of a non-loathsome version of the family name.
—Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2016
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Of all the recent trends in modern news media, few are as loathsome as the press taking its editorial cues from Twitter.
—Becket Adams, National Review, 25 June 2023
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Somehow the reader winds up rooting for this loathsome protagonist in its quest for answers.
—Liz Braswell, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
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No one, not even the movie’s divinely inspired and loathsome title character.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 10 May 2022
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More loathsome than a couple of Whisperer rejects trying to survive is the punk-ass teen gang terrorizing A-town.
—Richard Rys, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2021
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McCarthy is actually one of the two subdued, subtle performances in the film — Spencer gives the other — but everyone else is too loathsome to spend any time with.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
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Because in America — and only in America — it was understood that even if the most loathsome speech was not protected, all speech was at risk.
—Dennis Prager, National Review, 15 Oct. 2019
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Creating a truly loathsome villain takes special craft, and the well-mannered, pious one at the center of Dawn King's 2011 one-act paranoiac drama is a real doozy.
—Chicago Reader, 12 Oct. 2017
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It’s reached a crisis point in the past couple weeks—a disturbing and loathsome epidemic of fan aggression against performers.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
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