All 3 Uses
loathe
in
Nine Stories
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- However, the Dufarges had no intention of liberating Black Wing, whom they feared and loathed.†
Story 4 *loathed = detested or intensely disliked
- Mornings and early afternoons, I attended—bodily—an art school on Forty-eighth and Lexington Avenue, which I loathed.†
Story 8
- I stopped on the way to put the mail clerk (who unmistakably loathed me) on the alert for de Daumier-Smith's future incoming mail.†
Story 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(loathe) hate, detest, or intensely dislikeWord 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.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)