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  • Then he would transfer his loathing to me.†   (source)
  • Soon, her sedated condition transformed to harassment and self-loathing.†   (source)
  • You are probably wondering why you are eating a bad cheese sandwich and drinking orange juice and why I am wearing the jersey of a Dutchman who played a sport I have come to loathe.†   (source)
  • He loathed Jimmy Carter, whom he called a "big-toothed cretin."†   (source)
  • In fact, I know if I was watching I'd loathe any tribute who didn't immediately ally with their district partner.†   (source)
  • The biggest chore of training was coping with the nitpicking, rank-pulling, much-loathed lieutenant who oversaw their flights.†   (source)
  • "Urgh — essence of Millicent Bulstrode," said Ron, eyeing it with loathing.†   (source)
  • Sam Westing plotted against the person he held responsible for his daughter's suicide, the person who forced Violet Westing to marry a man she loathed."†   (source)
  • I have to admit, despite my loathing of her, that they have proved to be of considerable value in my life.†   (source)
  • And then the exhilaration and self-loathing when he'd listened.†   (source)
  • Your charge is to exploit and create environmental problems to make the population loathe science and modern industry.†   (source)
  • The Commissar of Transport loathed American journalists; the German ambassador loathed the Commissar of Transport; and the deputy head of the OGPU was loathed by all.†   (source)
  • You loathed them as I did.†   (source)
  • I loathed debt and the sense of limitation it imposed.†   (source)
  • Like most gunters, I loathed the Sixers and was disgusted by their very existence.†   (source)
  • The way I was holding it, it looked like a scoop of loathsome fish ice cream sticking out of a wool blanket cone.†   (source)
  • When I pulled into the parking lot, I once again saw that loathsome truck, with its flags, stickers, and menacing gun rack.†   (source)
  • Bod looked up at the city, and was horrified: an emotion engulfed him that mingled repulsion and fear, disgust and loathing, all tinged with shock.†   (source)
  • "I loathe them," he said.†   (source)
  • No, it was not anger, it was loathing; it was hatred, sheer and unadulterated, and as she became lost in hatred she also began to be lost in IT.†   (source)
  • But Nazi dogma grouped Jews as one, as the loathed enemy of the Aryans.†   (source)
  • Only that he loathes school and wishes to come home.†   (source)
  • Mary Beth Baird, who had once pleaded to be allowed to kiss the Baby Jesus, glared with jealous loathing at Barb Wiggin, who must have been an exceptionally strong stewardess—in her time in the sky.†   (source)
  • Somehow they had learned of his loathing …. and of his skills.†   (source)
  • I'm not the only recruit who loathes Reznik.†   (source)
  • As for Clarissa—all those daylight hours curled up on the bed with pins and needles in her arm—it surely proved the case of Paradise Lost in reverse—the heroine became more loathsome as her death-fixated virtue was revealed.†   (source)
  • First I save you from being eaten by some vampires in Owosso, then you seem to have survived my daughter's paincakes and finally that police officer saves you from the feared and loathsome labor organizers of Detroit!†   (source)
  • My loathing for Arnold had grown to such a point that I eventually found a way to make him die.†   (source)
  • More often than not they turned away without answering; one man spit on the ground, his face twisted with loathing.†   (source)
  • "Tadu," Sunny murmured solemnly, which probably meant something along the lines of "It's a loathsome situation in which we find ourselves."†   (source)
  • "The things I do for love," he said with loathing.†   (source)
  • With each step, I loathe the gargoyles more and more, until I reach the exit and— I'm really high up.†   (source)
  • Having loathed the too-small foot for four years, she swore to never put the piece of junk back on again.†   (source)
  • He bound himself together with his will, fused his fear and loathing into a hatred, and stood up.†   (source)
  • This suited the Dentrassis fine, because they loved Vogon money, which is one of the hardest currencies in space, but loathed the Vogons themselves.†   (source)
  • If I take a small helping of a vegetable I loathe and eat potatoes instead, the van Daans, especially Mrs. van Daan, can't get over how spoiled I am.†   (source)
  • He felt ashamed and afraid of learning from them, since they were the most terrible enemy, ugly and murderous and loathsome.†   (source)
  • But unlike Kitsey — who was always at least partly somewhere else, who loathed serious talk, who at a similar turn would be looking around for the waitress or making whatever light and/or comic remark she could think of to keep the moment from getting too intense—she was listening, she was right with me, and I could see only too well how saddened she was at my condition, a sadness only worsened by the fact she truly liked me: we had a lot in common, a mental connection and an emotional…†   (source)
  • He would look at them and the self-loathing would back up his throat in a bitter wave, even stronger than the taste of beer and cigarettes and martinis — martians, as Al called them.†   (source)
  • I loathed confrontation and I hated confrontation with my father more.†   (source)
  • The thought of being linked to the Twins filled Eragon with loathing, but he knew it was necessary.†   (source)
  • Hated it, loathed it, cursed it …. but loved it.†   (source)
  • On the streets, from a distance, they'd scowl at us, thinking we were merely the scourge they already knew and loathed—the mixed-race couple, with mongrel children as advertisement of our sins.†   (source)
  • But in my guts I already felt a hard, hot loathing for Lunardi's son.†   (source)
  • Edouard, I have spent-so many hours wrestling with my faith-my lack of faith-but now, in this fearful corner of an all but forgotten world, riddied as I am with this loathsome parasite, I have somehow rediscovered a strength of belief the likes of which I have not known since you and I were boys.†   (source)
  • The look he gave Edward confirmed what Edward had said about loathing.†   (source)
  • Her father, a United States Marshal based in Memphis, raised her to fear and loathe blacks as much as he did.†   (source)
  • Astern of us lay the fevered cauldrons of loathing in Iraq and nearby Kuwait, places where I had previously served.†   (source)
  • He ran a squad of obstreperous newsboys, whom he loathed, and who loathed him in return, as was clear by their taunts and practical jokes.†   (source)
  • She is left with her despised, kinky "black" hair and her self-loathing.†   (source)
  • She didn't glance at him, because besides loathing him and finding his face weak and his eyes shifty, besides being sure she'd never need to see that wretched face again, she had work to do.†   (source)
  • I loathed them all as they passed me by, loathed that what passed for courage and endurance was in reality apathy even in the face of death.†   (source)
  • Instead, Mark logged fifty more hours watching the Trinity Network, then took his complaint to the administration—with a petition signed by twenty-five or thirty of his faithful followers—requesting not only that Ellerby be banned from representing the school in his loathsome powder blue monstrosity, but that it also be outlawed in the student parking lotnow and forever more, world without end, amen.†   (source)
  • Unmoving, held by the warding spell, Perenelle Flamel watched him, eyes blazing with a combination of loathing and what might even have been fear.†   (source)
  • Valentine never lost that— neither his destructive idealism nor his passionate loathing of anything he considered 'nonhuman.'†   (source)
  • My father's feelings towards the General were, naturally, those of utmost loathing; but he realized too that his employer's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party - which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair.†   (source)
  • Her voice filled with self-loathing.†   (source)
  • Absolutely bloody loathe them.†   (source)
  • The antidote for such fear and loathing is, of course, a good story.†   (source)
  • I felt a burst of intense guilt, self-loathing.†   (source)
  • He hadn't expected her to throw her arms around him, but nothing could've prepared him for the look of pure loathing in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Again, Mapes cast a piercing stare at the oval door, and Jessica thought she detected loathing in the expression.†   (source)
  • He loathed appearing before classrooms of students and talking.†   (source)
  • Sophie loathed all that soppy talk about love.†   (source)
  • Instead I looked with loathing on new dresses that required a hateful bath in a galvanized zinc tub before wearing.†   (source)
  • Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about.†   (source)
  • And I was stretched between loathing his voice and wanting to listen to the sermon.†   (source)
  • Each friend had died while in the care of doctors, in the typical, substandard Haitian medical facilities that Farmer had come to loathe.†   (source)
  • Dr. Finch coached his niece to the tune of Jem's record player: "Nothing to it …. like chess …. just concentrate …. no,no,no, tuck in your butt …. you're not playing tackle …. loathe ballroom dancing …. too much like work …. don't try to lead me …. when he steps on your foot it's your own fault for not moving it …. don't look down …. don't,don't,don't …. now you've got it …. basic, so don't try anything fancy."†   (source)
  • It was the loathsome annual dinner.†   (source)
  • She hated to wash her face, she loathed the area behind her ears, she was sick of combing her hair and did so as little as possible.†   (source)
  • His voice trembled, toppled, disappeared, as though strangled by the intensity of his own loathing for the debonair, gum-chewing defendants.†   (source)
  • How I loathed Iran!†   (source)
  • These words sometimes brought on the climax— joylessly, with loathing, and too soon.†   (source)
  • Daagoo respected the chief and realized that he suffered from self-loathing because of the part he had played in abandoning the old women.†   (source)
  • "May we go now?" asked the dog, whose sensitive nose had picked up a loathsome, evil smell that grew stronger every second.†   (source)
  • I am filled with sudden loathing--I'll bet he's never taken payment in the form of beans and eggs in his life.†   (source)
  • At Buna the pipel were loathed; they were often crueler than adults.†   (source)
  • My loathing of the Empire.†   (source)
  • Ridiculous, an idea she had always loathed, and yet here she was—a damsel in distress.†   (source)
  • "Oh, how I've come to loathe those words 'start' and 'fu Inle,' " said Blackberry.†   (source)
  • It took Yoyo's father only a moment to register the loathsome nickname before he came after her.†   (source)
  • A lot of people might find this annoying, even loathsome.†   (source)
  • Ironically, in spite of all the fear and remorse and self-loathing, being locked up in prison is where I fully realized I had to change my life for the better, and in one significant way I did.†   (source)
  • Although I loathed DeSimon, I was glad to be kept semibusy five days a week, and ecstatic at the freedom of movement I had driving the electric shop van around the prison grounds.†   (source)
  • Ambassador," the president responded sharply, "in the eyes of a former district attorney, kidnapping is a vile and loathsome crime, and the government of the United States of America will not be accused of such a thing—certainly not in this office!†   (source)
  • I loathe it.†   (source)
  • Full of self-loathing.†   (source)
  • But he loathed the man, and wanted him dead.†   (source)
  • No matter how much I loathe it already.†   (source)
  • I like being loathed.†   (source)
  • When Julie finally answered, her voice was quiet but filled with loathing.†   (source)
  • Mortenson didn't drink very often, certainly not alone, and there was little he loathed as much as sweet liqueur.†   (source)
  • It made me want to say something nice about the loathsome Hattie and Olive.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I even sing, but I save that for the days when my self-loathing is at peak levels and I want to hurt myself.†   (source)
  • He was a loathsome little creature: he paddled a small boat with his large flat feet, peering with pale luminous eyes and catching blind fish with his long fingers, and eating them raw.†   (source)
  • Dread and a deathly loathing cut through the women.†   (source)
  • I positively loathed Lestat.†   (source)
  • Yossarian felt much safer inside the hospital than outside the hospital, even though he loathed the surgeon and his knife as much as he had ever loathed anyone.†   (source)
  • They had lied to me for ten years, and my insides churned with loathsome emotions.†   (source)
  • I loathe townspeople.†   (source)
  • He had seen the fear and loathing in her eyes.†   (source)
  • All the loathing I felt for them was turned against myself, for hadn't I let myself become a part of them?†   (source)
  • He'd gotten just as much out of the experience as I had, minus the self-loathing.†   (source)
  • He had always been the prime example of everything she loathed.†   (source)
  • I loathe Clare Edwards.†   (source)
  • Those two events are kinda like the bookends of what my life has become: making the music, which I like, and talking about making the music, which I loathe.†   (source)
  • I loathe that man.†   (source)
  • He wasn't sure if she wanted Woref or loathed him, but she'd reacted with enough passion to bring a lump to his throat.†   (source)
  • This unexpected time was becoming a curse, filling me with anxiety, fear, and self-loathing--all of the ingredients of the darkness that is depression.†   (source)
  • The sheep loathed them.†   (source)
  • A lot of men were damaged deep inside by the killing and dying of wars, then tried to heal themselves with a snake oil elixir of sour mash and self-loathing.†   (source)
  • It was one of instant loathing and he did not know why, since no connection with anything in the past came to him.†   (source)
  • So another of the ironies of 1800 was that Jefferson, the apostle of agrarian America who loathed cities, owed his ultimate political triumph to New York.†   (source)
  • I, meanwhile, was on my way to be ruled for the afternoon by people I loathed.†   (source)
  • It had followed her from that magazine to this much grander one, where it had won the instant loathing of the interior designer hired at great expense to restyle the deposed editor's office to Annie's taste.†   (source)
  • Choking on self-loathing as much as on the fetid air, he walked out of the reeking building into an ocean breeze that didn't refresh, a world as foul as the lavatory behind him.†   (source)
  • It was loathing, a horror which broke her defences from within.†   (source)
  • Snatching it out of the air, the corpse stared at the object upon its palm with a look of unmitigated loathing.†   (source)
  • Bobby does such a poor job of hiding his loathing that friends once presented him with a Lyndon Johnson voodoo doll, complete with stickpins.†   (source)
  • He felt a sudden loathing: not because the words were hypocrisy, but because they were true; Philip meant them.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: (Swings around to face her …. says, with great loathing) No …. show him, Martha …. he hasn't seen it.†   (source)
  • Clean your loathsome bodies, dumbwads.†   (source)
  • Self-loathing.†   (source)
  • Men can be loathsome creatures, especially when they put their heads together.†   (source)
  • The problem is our acceptance of what we loathe and fear in ourselves.†   (source)
  • I tried to tear my mind off my own self-loathing.†   (source)
  • I DETEST AND LOATHE IT!†   (source)
  • Huddled in his lab coat, Chief Tech Dickie Berenski— Dickhead to those who knew and loathed him—tested a strand of pubic hair.†   (source)
  • Comic poet Eupolis has one of his characters say: "Yes, and I loathe that poverty-stricken windbag Socrates who contemplates everything in the world but does not know where his next meal is coming from."†   (source)
  • By the time Caroline rolled up next to me and pushed the passenger door open about two miles from home, I'd reached an entirely new level of self-loathing.†   (source)
  • Rousseau loathed such gatherings—they invariably devolved into political point-scoring contests—so he sent Bouchard in his stead.†   (source)
  • While Tyler had been up to his neck in red tape and carbon fiber, which he was starting to quietly loathe, the world had been dealing with a plague.†   (source)
  • I ended up sleeping better that night than any other I could remember, with my old movie posters of Vertigo and Jaws and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas hanging on the walls around me and my too-long body making my feet stick out over the short wooden railing of the twin bed.†   (source)
  • In sum, he was a doll, and the Foreign Student Affairs secretary, though she loathed her job, loathed her boss, loathed working, liked him.†   (source)
  • He knew from long days on the march that there was nothing loathsome about the smell of the paddies.†   (source)
  • She answered rudely and glared at me with such loathing I knew I was receiving what the Negroes call "the hate stare."†   (source)
  • He dropped the book on the grass and looked at it with loathing.†   (source)
  • Pure un-a-dul-ter-a-ted loathing.†   (source)
  • We looked on that man with loathing, and he was marked to the day of his death.†   (source)
  • I'd developed a loathing for violence that made me an easy victim for the world's Walters.†   (source)
  • I got so that I loathed it almost more than anything else you did or said.†   (source)
  • I have seen the Lord of Light at last, of whom I wrote, long ago: Always dying, never dead; Ever ending, never ended; Loathed in darkness, Clothed in light, He comes, to end a world, As morning ends the night.†   (source)
  • -And that loathsome, unfeeling brute is still talking!†   (source)
  • Ordinarily he took a good deal of time shaving, not because he enjoyed it (he loathed it) but because if it had to be done he wanted to do it well, and because he hated to cut himself.†   (source)
  • That's a loathsome car, John.†   (source)
  • Some men aren't capable of this, but I'd be loathe to think your father one of them.†   (source)
  • He was fighting irrational symbols of abandonment… desertion… shame… loathing… cowardice.†   (source)
  • And above all, he loathed the cinema.†   (source)
  • Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something.   (source)
    loathing = disgust or intense dislike
  • Think of their loathsome joy, of the delight they would have in dragging you down,   (source)
    loathsome = disgusting or very bad
  • Would it teach him to loathe his own soul?   (source)
    loathe = hate
  • you are living in this filth which you loathe so,   (source)
  • Longing and loathing were mixed in his voice.†   (source)
  • He glared at Jacob with vicious, unveiled loathing.†   (source)
  • I dump the bag onto a seat, where the loathsome creature begins a low, deep-throated growl.†   (source)
  • Katherine glared at him, filled with loathing.†   (source)
  • There is loathing in her voice, as if the touch of my flesh sickens and contaminates her.†   (source)
  • Mr. D turned his eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing.†   (source)
  • There was loathing, and at the same time a kind of feverish excitement, in his voice.†   (source)
  • The eyes looked even harder in death, the loathing and enmity rising to the surface.†   (source)
  • Implicit in her desire was racial self-loathing.†   (source)
  • Admiration, yes, and fear …. and in some—loathing.†   (source)
  • He felt such a loathing for Blomkvist at that moment that he surprised himself.†   (source)
  • Michael loathed that nickname; it was the enemy of what he hoped to become.†   (source)
  • "But you can touch them," he said, unable to keep the loathing out of his voice.†   (source)
  • Sirius and Snape were eyeing each other with the utmost loathing.†   (source)
  • It was always the same, a gaze of undisguised loathing for the infidel.†   (source)
  • So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.†   (source)
  • I loathed that song with every fiber of my being, and getting up was the only way to silence it.†   (source)
  • Alec asked Clary, looking at her with veiled loathing.†   (source)
  • I imagined the way he would crumple, crushed under the weight of my words and his own self-loathing.†   (source)
  • "He absolutely loathes me," Edward said cheerfully.†   (source)
  • We went to Giraffe on the High Street, a place I loathe.†   (source)
  • The writhing loathsomeness of the biological order.†   (source)
  • Argus Filch, the caretaker, was loathed by every student in the school.†   (source)
  • "You know nothing of sacrifice," Peter said, his voice seething with pain and loathing.†   (source)
  • Kai glared at Queen Levana, filling the look with loathing, and clipped his heels together.†   (source)
  • Three hundred and sixty-eight people loathed her.†   (source)
  • Ah, but Gregor was his to loathe, not yours to kill.†   (source)
  • I loathe algebra, geometry and arithmetic.†   (source)
  • Williams looked down from the stand with an expression of loathing.†   (source)
  • She is wearing a dark blue bathrobe and the fuzzy slippers that I have already come to loathe.†   (source)
  • It was madness to go to the man's defense, it was loathsome not to.†   (source)
  • "Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."†   (source)
  • Harry, knowing and loathing Malfoy, was sure the reason could not be innocent.†   (source)
  • And she had no idea when she'd stopped loathing him so much.†   (source)
  • It wasn't the subject matter; it was simply that they loathed him.†   (source)
  • You — wait,' he panted, staring up at James with an expression of purest loathing, 'you — wait!†   (source)
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