- present participle of loathe.
loathing
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His film has ill will spewing from every pore, a complete loathing for humanity.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
This provides a viewer with that 100-proof cocktail of envy, loathing and cringy-ness that has been the gold standard of unscripted television.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Michael Jackson is a prime example of this conundrumFor his millions of devotees their love for him is rivalled in intensity only by their seething loathing for his critics.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
“We wear your loathing with pride,” Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in a post on X addressed to S&P, adding that the company “is and remains extremely profitable.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Sirius and Snape were eyeing each other with the utmost loathing.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Even divorced from the sympathies and loathings of my next-gen bias, I can’t help but feel that when we flock en masse to Tiger, we somehow undermine his heirs.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 24, 2018
There’s much to be said for the comedy that Lena Dunham and her co-writers plumbed from the seething jealousies and loathings between their main characters.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2017
Actual living humans—in this case, my baby girl—are reduced to Grumpy Cat memes as every day the Internet offers up new canvasses where other people can project their fears and loathings.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2015
Those established loyalties and loathings are fundamental to the excitement that football generates.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
There had been the recompense, indeed, of that son's graceful and perfected youth, of the haughty nobleness of soul that blazed through his loathings, and of his acquired reputation for scholarship and poetry.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
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