All 4 Uses of
loathe
in
The Fountainhead
- He lived to loathe the streets of the city he had dreamed of rebuilding.†
Chpt 1.3
- …man's office with your drawing, and you'll curse yourself for taking so much space of his air with your body, and you'll try to squeeze yourself out of his sight, so that he won't see you, but only hear your voice begging him, pleading, your voice licking his knees; you'll loathe yourself for it, but you won't care, if only he'd let you put up that building, you won't care, you'll want to rip your insides open to show him, because if he saw what's there he'd have to let you put it up.†
Chpt 1.4
- She thought of being broken—not by a man she admired, but by a man she loathed.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- And I thought that it didn't know the things I loathed, it could never know.†
Chpt 4.4
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.