Loathsome Sentence Examples

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  • She frequently walks a dog, a loathsome animal who fails to warm to my affection.

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  • Carrie had looked at him as if he was some particularly loathsome slug.

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  • Both suffered severely from the insufficient and loathsome food, and Mertz collapsed on Jan.

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  • Nature had made him mean, the smallpox had made him hideous, and his degraded habits made him loathsome.

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  • It's a maudlin rumination on loathsome rich kids and their disgusting, ill-mannered behavior, and their even more disgusting, ill-mannered parents.

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  • And this life suddenly seemed to Pierre unexpectedly loathsome.

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  • For when You are present, all things are delightful; when You are absent, all things become loathsome.

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  • Joan Crawford is one of the most memorable actors born in Texas, best known for her scathing portrayals of disturbed, mean, loathsome or just plain crazy women.

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  • Conspicuous in it is the loathsome bandicoot (Nesocia bandicota), which sometimes tribe.

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  • This is the solitary record of his youth; we hear nothing more till, in his twenty-ninth year, it is related that, driving to his pleasure-grounds one day, he was struck by the sight of a man utterly broken down by age, on another occasion by the sight of a man suffering from a loathsome disease, and some months after by the horrible sight of a decomposing corpse.

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  • He has left an odious picture of himself in the historians - a man untouched by benefits or natural affection, delighting in deeds of blood, his body as loathsome in its blown corpulence as his soul.

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  • It's a maudlin rumination on loathsome rich kids and their disgusting, ill-mannered behavior, and their even more disgusting, ill-mannered behavior, and their even more disgusting, ill-mannered parents.

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  • Later artists parodied the excesses, producing religious kitsch loathsome to the austere Protestant ethic.

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  • A toad, a stinking carcass, cannot be so loathsome to us as a sinner is to God.

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  • Sorry â because the BNP are a truly loathsome development in British politics.

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  • There was no shyness or reserve till the heart grew sinful, and too loathsome a dungeon for God to delight in.

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  • I suspect that anyone religious would find it either very moving or very loathsome.

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  • Sheep-scab is a loathsome skin disease due to an acarian parasite.

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  • It was Brandon who kept coming back to Ouray year after year when you'd think the loathsome thing that happened here would cause him to despise the place.

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  • On the day of public procession - the last took place in 1857 or 1858 - naked priests and " wives" escorted the company with songs and dances; death was the penalty of those caught peering from their houses, and, apart from this, the natives feared loathsome diseases should they gaze upon the sacred scene.

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  • To the end they are "nefandissimi," execrable, loathsome, filthy.

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  • It grew gradually worse, and developed into what his contemporaries called leprosya loathsome skin disease accompanied by bouts of fever, which sometimes kept him bedridden for months at a time.

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  • But this full effect has only been worked out in the lapse of ages; the Tantra literature has also had its growth and its development, and some unhappy scholar of a future age may have to trace its loathsome history.

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  • Froissart relates that he was burned to death through his bedclothes catching fire; Secousse says that he died in peace with many signs of contrition; another story says he died of leprosy; and a popular legend tells how he expired by a divine judgment through the burning of the clothes steeped in sulphur and spirits in which he had been wrapped as a cure for a loathsome disease caused by his debauchery.

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