All 17 Uses of

loathe

in

The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version

All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.†
Chpt 4

Was it to become a monstrous and loathsome thing, to be hidden away in a locked room, to be shut out from the sunlight that had so often touched to brighter gold the waving wonder of its hair?†
Chpt 8

It seemed to him that it was unchanged; and yet his loathing of it was intensified.†
Chpt 10

On his return he would sit in front of the picture, sometimes loathing it and himself, but filled, at other times, with that pride of individualism that is half the fascination of sin, and smiling with secret pleasure, at the misshapen shadow that had to bear the burden that should have been his own.†
Chpt 11

There was something in its expression that filled him with disgust and loathing.†
Chpt 13

The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him, and he loathed the man who was seated at the table, more than in his whole life he had ever loathed anything.†
Chpt 13

The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him, and he loathed the man who was seated at the table, more than in his whole life he had ever loathed anything.†
Chpt 13

He winced at the memory of all that he had suffered, and for a moment the same curious feeling of loathing for Basil Hallward that had made him kill him as he sat in the chair, came back to him, and he grew cold with passion.†
Chpt 14

What was that loathsome red dew that gleamed, wet and glistening, on one of the hands, as though the canvas had sweated blood?†
Chpt 14

He watched it as though it were a thing that could fascinate and make afraid, as though it held something that he longed for and yet almost loathed.†
Chpt 15

The coarse brawl, the loathsome den, the crude violence of disordered life, the very vileness of thief and outcast, were more vivid, in their intense actuality of impression, than all the gracious shapes of Art, the dreamy shadows of Song.†
Chpt 16

Then he loathed his own beauty, and, flinging the mirror on the floor, crushed it into silver splinters beneath his heel.†
Chpt 20

The thing was still loathsome—more loathsome, if possible, than before—and the scarlet dew that spotted the hand seemed brighter, and more like blood newly spilt.†
Chpt 20

The thing was still loathsome—more loathsome, if possible, than before—and the scarlet dew that spotted the hand seemed brighter, and more like blood newly spilt.†
Chpt 20

Definition:

(loathe)
hate, detest, or intensely dislike

Word 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.