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hate, detest, or intensely dislike
- Would it teach him to loathe his own soul?Chapter 5 (91% in)
loathe = hate
- 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.Chapter 3 (94% in)
- Dorian Gray loathed him more than ever.Chapter 5 (1% in)
- Was it to become a hideous 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 the hair?Chapter 6 (92% in)
- It seemed to him that it was unchanged; and yet his loathing of it was intensified.Chapter 8 (27% in)
- 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 rebellion 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.Chapter 9 (70% in)
- There was something in its expression that filled him with disgust and loathing.Chapter 11 (15% in)
- The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him, and he loathed the man who was seated at the table, more than he had ever loathed anything in his whole life.Chapter 11 (54% in)
- The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him, and he loathed the man who was seated at the table, more than he had ever loathed anything in his whole life.Chapter 11 (55% in)
- 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.Chapter 12 (5% in)
- But what was that loathsome red dew that gleamed, wet and glistening, on one of the hands, as though the canvas had sweated blood?Chapter 12 (92% in)
- 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.Chapter 13 (78% in)
- 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.Chapter 13 (78% in)
- He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage.Chapter 13 (**% in)
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