All 31 Uses of
loathe
in
Anna Karenina
- "Go away, go out of the room!" she shrieked still more shrilly, "and don't talk to me of your passion and your loathsomeness."†
Part 1
- "You are loathsome to me, repulsive!" she shrieked, getting more and more heated.†
Part 1 *
- Levin for his part refrained from taking any vodka simply because he felt such a loathing of that Frenchwoman, all made up, it seemed, of false hair, poudre de riz, and vinaigre de toilette.†
Part 1
- Here, you've been married, you know the feeling…. it's awful that we—old—with a past…. not of love, but of sins…. are brought all at once so near to a creature pure and innocent; it's loathsome, and that's why one can't help feeling oneself unworthy."†
Part 1
- "Alas! all the same," said Levin, "when with loathing I go over my life, I shudder and curse and bitterly regret it….†
Part 1
- I have a loathing for fallen women.†
Part 1
- You must understand that I was so far from suspecting infidelity, I regarded it as impossible, and then— try to imagine it—with such ideas, to find out suddenly all the horror, all the loathsomeness….†
Part 1
- "Isn't he right that everything in the world is base and loathsome?†
Part 1
- "I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all?†
Part 2
- You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything."†
Part 2
- "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling.†
Part 2
- "The most utterly loathsome and coarse: I can't tell you.†
Part 2
- As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.†
Part 2
- "Oh, well, everything presents itself to me, in the coarsest, most loathsome light," she went on.†
Part 2
- "Happiness!" she said with horror and loathing and her horror unconsciously infected him.†
Part 2
- This was a feeling of loathing for something—whether for Alexey Alexandrovitch, or for himself, or for the whole world, he could not have said.†
Part 2
- This child's presence always and infallibly called up in Vronsky that strange feeling of inexplicable loathing which he had experienced of late.†
Part 2
- On hearing it, he felt come upon him with tenfold intensity that strange feeling of loathing of someone.†
Part 2
- When the three-mile steeplechase was beginning, she bent forward and gazed with fixed eyes at Vronsky as he went up to his horse and mounted, and at the same time she heard that loathsome, never-ceasing voice of her husband.†
Part 2
- For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self-interest offers me no inducement.†
Part 3
- He loathes the sight of anything that's not after his fashion.†
Part 3
- How loathsome!†
Part 4
- The mere idea of his wife, his Kitty, being in the same room with a common wench, set him shuddering with horror and loathing.†
Part 5
- And pity in her womanly heart did not arouse at all that feeling of horror and loathing that it aroused in her husband, but a desire to act, to find out all the details of his state, and to remedy them.†
Part 5
- And directly they began to talk he would close his eyes, and would show weariness, indifference, and loathing.†
Part 5
- By now he loathed this child.†
Part 7
- But they did not go back to Vozdvizhenskoe, as they had arranged to do long before; they went on staying in Moscow, though they both loathed it, because of late there had been no agreement between them.†
Part 7
- These horses, this carriage—how loathsome I am to myself in this carriage—all his; but I won't see them again."†
Part 7
- Thinking of Alexey Alexandrovitch, she at once pictured him with extraordinary vividness as though he were alive before her, with his mild, lifeless, dull eyes, the blue veins in his white hands, his intonations and the cracking of his fingers, and remembering the feeling which had existed between them, and which was also called love, she shuddered with loathing.†
Part 7
- And with loathing she thought of what she meant by that love.†
Part 7
- I'm glad there's something to give my life for, for it's not simply useless but loathsome to me.†
Part 8
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.