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loathing

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adjective

loathing

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verb

present participle of loathe

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Recent Examples of loathing
Noun
Admittedly, many of his judgments did not hold up: Mencken had many of the racial prejudices of his time, and his loathing for Franklin D. Roosevelt has not exactly been vindicated by history. Ben Jacobs, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024 Global fear and loathing of Islamism is preventing a genuine wave of celebration over the demise of a butcher. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024 As news and rumors of the brutal attack spread, French Louisiana was beset by fear and loathing. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024 Nobody who has been on the wild journey of fear and loathing that has sent this fine old club careering to unprecedented lows since Farhad Moshiri’s arrival, initially as co-owner, in 2016 could underestimate a single development anymore. Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for loathing 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loathing
Noun
  • My read is that Corbet is pointedly leading the viewer to pore over the specifics of Tóth’s fate: Although the director’s disgust for the hollowness of the institution that Tóth tries, and ultimately fails, to navigate is thuddingly clear, what happens next to the character is more oblique.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • From celebrities to plutocrats like Elon Musk, there’s more disgust with the elite than ever.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Hannah condemned hatred of Muslims in the strongest terms possible, and Pandith did the same against antisemitism.
    Hannah Rosenthal and David Saperstein, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • However, with new strains breaking out and lockdowns needing to be reinstated, Ardern quickly became a target of fringe groups like anti-vaxxers and far-right conspiracy theorists importing Trump’s hatred to the other side of the world.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Garvey’s legacy has been complicated, especially due to his sometimes hateful and violent rhetoric against Jews, white people, Catholics, and other groups.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The settlement, announced by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, requires Rutgers to take a series of actions to combat discrimination on campus after 400 reports of hateful incidents on campus were filed between July 2023 and June 2024.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One of the more intriguing elements is his apparent distaste for American military interventionism — a break with the hawkish neoconservatism seen during the Bush administration, when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Others planning to stay away cited a distaste for inaugurations, a loathing of Trump — and even fears for their safety.
    Mike Allen, Axios, 14 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The arguments Republicans have made in their opposition to Joe Biden’s contemptuous pardons are pretty compelling.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Written by Fielding, Richard Naylor and Jon Brittain, the series followed the contemptuous life of the 18th-century highwayman, known in York, England, as a thief, poacher and killer but whose exploits have been widely romanticized in modern culture.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • What price female solidarity and empowerment, after all, if the weapon of actualization is an abusive system, one that invariably draws Santosh into its clubby, scornful, vigilante mindset?
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Yet feeling out of place has, ironically, brought Escola even closer to their Mary Todd Lincoln, whose fear that a scornful world might keep her offstage gives the show an unexpected pathos.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024

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“Loathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loathing. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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