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Definition
hate, detest, or intensely dislike
- Cray would have been disliked, anyway, because of the uniform he wore, but it was his habit of luring starving young women into his bed for money that made him an object of loathing in the district.Chapter 8 (67% in)
loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- I will have to travel from district to district, to stand before the cheering crowds who secretly loathe me, to look down into the faces of the families whose children I have killed... The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand.Chapter 1 (8% in)
- I rest my head forward on the edge of the table, overcome with loathing for myself.Chapter 8 (91% in)
- I think of the loathing I felt when I discovered Peeta was with the Careers during the last Games.Chapter 16 (29% in)
- " She gives me a look filled with loathing, like I'm the biggest drag possible on her life.Chapter 22 (90% in)
There are no more uses of "loathe" in Hunger Games Book #2 (Catching Fire).
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