All 21 Uses of
loathe
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- When he was in the street he cried out, "Oh, God, how loathsome it all is!†
Chpt 1.1loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- Yes, filthy above all, disgusting, loathsome, loathsome!†
Chpt 1.1
- Yes, filthy above all, disgusting, loathsome, loathsome!†
Chpt 1.1
- He left the seat, and went off almost at a run; he meant to turn back, homewards, but the thought of going home suddenly filled him with intense loathing; in that hole, in that awful little cupboard of his, all this had for a month past been growing up in him; and he walked on at random.†
Chpt 1.5loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- As I came down the stairs yesterday, I said myself that it was base, loathsome, vile, vile...the very thought of it made me feel sick and filled me with horror.†
Chpt 1.5loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- And if at that moment he had been capable of seeing and reasoning more correctly, if he had been able to realise all the difficulties of his position, the hopelessness, the hideousness and the absurdity of it, if he could have understood how many obstacles and, perhaps, crimes he had still to overcome or to commit, to get out of that place and to make his way home, it is very possible that he would have flung up everything, and would have gone to give himself up, and not from fear, but from simple horror and loathing of what he had done.†
Chpt 1.7loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- The feeling of loathing especially surged up within him and grew stronger every minute.†
Chpt 1.7
- But no sooner had he put it on than he pulled it off again in loathing and horror.†
Chpt 2.1
- He felt all at once that it would be loathsome to pass that seat on which after the girl was gone, he had sat and pondered, and that it would be hateful, too, to meet that whiskered policeman to whom he had given the twenty copecks: "Damn him!"†
Chpt 2.2loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- All who met him were loathsome to him—he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures.†
Chpt 2.2
- All who met him were loathsome to him—he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures.†
Chpt 2.2loathed = detested or intensely disliked
- "No, that's loathsome...water...it's not good enough," he muttered to himself.†
Chpt 2.6loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- But it is loathsome explaining it all.†
Chpt 3.6
- He felt with sudden loathing how weak, how physically weak he had become.†
Chpt 3.6loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- Ugh, how loathsome!†
Chpt 3.6loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- And what shows that I am utterly a louse," he added, grinding his teeth, "is that I am perhaps viler and more loathsome than the louse I killed, and I felt beforehand that I should tell myself so after killing her.†
Chpt 3.6
- you are living in this filth which you loathe so,
Chpt 4.4 *loathe = hate
- Can it be that she has only been able to bear it till now, because vice has begun to be less loathsome to her?†
Chpt 4.4loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- How can she sit on the edge of the abyss of loathsomeness into which she is slipping and refuse to listen when she is told of danger?†
Chpt 4.4loathsomeness = the quality of being disgusting or very bad
- I've only killed a louse, Sonia, a useless, loathsome, harmful creature.†
Chpt 5.4loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- Raskolnikov whispered with loathing and contempt, as though he did not want to speak aloud.†
Chpt 6.2loathing = disgust or intense dislike
Definition:
hate, detest, or intensely dislike
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.