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  • present participle of loathe.
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loathing

[loh-thing] / ˈloʊ ðɪŋ /


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His 1971 book, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” became an essential read for generations of teenagers who were just starting to question the world and came to define the desert gambling mecca.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024

You can watch the full BBC Africa Eye documentary Fear and Loathing in South Africa here on the BBC Africa YouTube channel.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2023

He’s also the subject of a new Hulu documentary, “The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump,” produced with the LA Times and ABC News.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2023

Loathing the brutality of football, she didn’t want her son to play the sport but promised he could do so once he reached the seventh grade, hoping he would forget.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

Loathing his own baseness, dreading a detection which must be fatal to his honour, afraid to go forward, afraid to go back, he underwent tortures of which it is impossible to think without commiseration.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron




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