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loathly

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7 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted ahllotyStarts with LEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

Word origin

From Middle English lothli, loothly, from Old English lāþlīċ (“loathly, hateful, horrible, repulsive, unpleasant”); equivalent to loath + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • And Merlin answered, 'Overquick art thou / To catch a loathly plume fallen from the wing / Of that foul bird of rapine whose whole prey / Is man's good name: he never wronged his bride.
  • This unremitting insistence on his color, this continual shunting him into obscure and filthy ways, gradually gave Peter a loathly sensation.

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