How to Use loathsome in a Sentence

loathsome

adjective

• Some of the most loathsome of its dictates aren’t even legal.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The hypocrisies were overwhelming; the business, loathsome.
  — Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
• 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
• Stewart once called Hannity the ‘‘most loathsome dude’’ at Fox News.
  — Samantha Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The entire team knew the assignment would be both dangerous and loathsome for Owen.
  — Carrie Teegardin, Doctors & Sex Abuse, 6 Jan. 2017
• The Safdies mine for what lies beneath Howard's loathsome behavior.
  — Sonia Rao, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• The jokes are borne out of pure loathing, spat directly at loathsome people, with no moment of reprieve.
  — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 6 Apr. 2017
• Her family is loathsome, her lifestyle is ridiculous, and her job is a joke.
  — WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
• The self-importance of the Dallas Cowboys is never less than loathsome.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2022
• Marshall Chen was a loathsome man who everyone had reason to kill.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
• Strong's fans make their presence known for the lovably loathsome underdog.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The commercial aspects and government urging the killing along drove the force of loathsome buffalo killers.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
• Or Kanye West's rapid descent into loathsome anti-semitism?
  — Luke Winkie, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Somehow the reader winds up rooting for this loathsome protagonist in its quest for answers.
  — Liz Braswell, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• No one, not even the movie’s divinely inspired and loathsome title character.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 10 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024