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What is the adjective for loathliness?

What's the adjective for loathliness? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs loathe and loath which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

loath
  1. unwilling, reluctant; averse, disinclined
  2. (obsolete) hostile, angry, loathsome, unpleasant
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Personally, I'm hugely pessimistic about this, but I'm loath to spoil the mood.”
      “Research institutions that would normally be loath to patent are doing so defensively in order to prevent the corpocrats stealing their ideas.”
      “Most other industrialized nations privately agree they are necessary but are loath to step forward and be counted.”
loathful
  1. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
  2. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.
loathable
loathsome
  1. highly offensive; sickening, abominable
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We are simply asked to contemplate the appalling act that one loathsome human being can inflict on an innocent bystander.”
      “As someone who's been essentially self taught in most academic fields, I find the increasing credentialism very loathsome.”
      “Like a living animal, the wood pounced on its prey, wrapping itself around the loathsome wizard.”
loathly
self-loathing
  1. Loathing oneself.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If the narcissistic Michael was a self-loathing man, Brea didn't even begin to stand a chance of him loving her in the manner in which she needed and desired.”
      “Indeed, our whole diet culture is ultimately all about fear, and self-loathing, and endless dissatisfaction.”
      “If there's anything more off-putting than the British elite's squabbling, it's its self-loathing.”
loathy
  1. (archaic) Loathsome.
loathlier
loathliest
loathiest
  1. superlative form of loathy: most loathy
loathest
loathesome
  1. Misspelling of loathsome.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But I'd sooner slice open my own entrails than be a party to this loathesome return to a feudal society of a miniscule group of literati.”
      “The second is social: Why on earth did our stalwart British allies join the predictably feckless Europeans in this dimwitted and loathesome orgy of recriminations?”
      “Here's a nice way to run for office: No demeaning fund-raising, no scooting around for salable positions on difficult issues, no making nice to loathesome but useful people.”
loathed
loathing
loathed
loathing
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