Synonyms for loathe
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1. loatheverb

   Synonyms:
   detest, hate

2. loatheverb

   To hate, detest, revile.

   Synonyms:
   hate, detest

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1. loathe

   Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful." Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.

   Synonyms:
   abhor, abominate, despise, detest, dislike, hate, nauseate, scorn, shun

   Antonyms:
   admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

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1. abhor, loathe, abominate, execrateverb

   find repugnant

   "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

   Synonyms:
   accurse, abominate, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, abhor, execrate, comminate, anathemise

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1. loatheverb

   Synonyms:
   abhor, detest, hate, nauseate, abominate, feel disgust at, shrink from, recoil from

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1. loatheverb

   Synonyms:
   abhor, hate, detest, abominate, despise, execrate, recoil from

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1. List of paraphrases for "loathe":

   hate, abhor

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How to use loathe in a sentence?

1. Franoise Mallet-Joris:

   Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

2. Jeremy Clarkson:

   I'd actually used the word I was trying to obscure. I was mortified by this, horrified. It is a word I loathe.

3. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

4. Longfellow:

   Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

5. Arthur Alan Wolk:

   The only way to really improve it…is to have competition, the only other thing that works, I’m loathe to say, is for the regulatory environment to tighten up the service regulations that apply to the airlines.