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  • present participle of loathe.
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loathing

[loh-thing] / ˈloʊ ðɪŋ /


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He seems to have felt instant solidarity with his brothers and loathing for his bosses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Here is where I’m required to offer a throat-clearing assertion that everyone else’s marriage is a mystery, and that we can never know the depths of love or loathing from the outside.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 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

His heavy accent didn’t get in the way of how confident, unapologetic — even polite — he sounded, despite his loathing of the president.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

Her eyes grew wider, more full of horror, or loathing, and she didn’t seem to be aware of him or of Lyra anymore, just of that insistent whisper through the coal silk at her side.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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