loathed

Example Sentences

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Loathed midweek nights of goosebump blue skin and skinned knees, playing netball games on asphalt courts in the rain.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2020

Loathed by critics and music fans alike, in the ensuing decades it's been re-evaluated as a milestone in American music, a precursor to punk rock and one of the most influential records of all time.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2019

Loathed it at school, steadfastly bored by it since.

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2012

Yea, sweetest peace, unsought-for, undesired, Loathed and misnamed, 'tis thee I worship here: Though in most black habiliments attired, Thou art sweet peace, and thee I cannot fear.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

For since Each hand made ready in its wrath to take A vengeance fiercer than by man's fair laws Is now conceded, men on this account Loathed the old life fostered by force.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery