All 3 Uses of
loathe
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- She loathed that sort of person, the fallen women off the accommodation walk beside the Dodder that went with the soldiers and coarse men with no respect for a girl's honour, degrading the sex and being taken up to the police station.†
Chpt 13
- Surprise, horror, loathing were depicted on all faces while he eyed them with a ghostly grin.†
Chpt 14
- No born gentleman, no-one with the most rudimentary promptings of a gentleman would stoop to such particularly loathsome conduct.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(loathe) hate, detest, or intensely dislikeWord Mastery: Word Confusion: Do not confuse loathe with loath which sounds very similar or the same. Loathe is a verb while loath is an adjective describing "reluctance or unwillingness to do something." Note that loathing and loathsome are forms of the verb loathe even though both word forms lack the "e". Occasionally, you will see loath spelled as loathe even in a published book, but it is rare enough that it is generally considered an error rather than a non-standard spelling.