- present participle of loathe.
loathing
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Janeites may be forgiven for overlooking, if not outright loathing, Mary Bennet from Austen’s sacred “Pride & Prejudice” text.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
He seems to have felt instant solidarity with his brothers and loathing for his bosses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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
The look he gave Edward confirmed what Edward had said about loathing.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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
His "mazes of passion" and the "loathings of his sick mind" were held up to the contempt of the people.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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