All 14 Uses of
loathe
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 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 3loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- Dorian Gray loathed him more than ever.†
Chpt 5loathed = detested or intensely disliked
- Would it teach him to loathe his own soul?
Chpt 5 *loathe = hate
- 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?†
Chpt 6loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- It seemed to him that it was unchanged; and yet his loathing of it was intensified.†
Chpt 8loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- There was something in its expression that filled him with disgust and loathing.†
Chpt 11
- 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.†
Chpt 11loathed = detested or intensely disliked
- 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.†
Chpt 11
- 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 12loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- But what was that loathsome red dew that gleamed, wet and glistening, on one of the hands, as though the canvas had sweated blood?†
Chpt 12loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- 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 13
- 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 13
- He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage.†
Chpt 13
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.