loathsome

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Because his lothsome sight offends mine eye, And in my thoughts is shrin'd another loue: O Anna, didst thou know how sweet loue were, Full soone wouldst thou abiure this single life.

From The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Marlowe, Christopher

This man also at his owne cost builded the gate of London called Newgate in the yéere of our Lord 1422, which before was a most ouglie and lothsome prison.

From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Holinshed, Raphael

The "lothsome spottes" here intended are the 13th and 14th articles of Wilkinson's indictment.

From Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various

The context bears this out; for the author utterly rejects the inspiration of the Muses in the preceding stanza, and proceeds to invoke furies, harpies, and, to use his own expression, `all this lothsome sort.'

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

Come on my Lords, the better foote before, Straight will I bring you to the lothsome pit, Where I espied the Panther fast asleepe Quin.

From Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare, William