loathly
1 Americanadverb
adjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of loathly1
before 1000; Middle English lothliche, Old English lāthlīce. See loath, -ly (adv. suffix)
Origin of loathly2
before 900; Middle English lothlic ( e ), Old English lāthlīc. See loath, -ly (adj. suffix)
Example Sentences
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She had re-membered the stories of her childhood, the most loathly and ancient bugaboo her nurse had ever frightened her with.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
As if he thinks I am not loathly, as though he does not find my mortality contagious.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
And off the beauteous tresses fell; The tender waist that was so slim, In loathly sort was seen to swell, Shrivell’d and shrank each comely limb.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
She feared him, feared him as she might have feared any loathly, venomous thing; but she was not in the least spiritually afraid of him.
From The Bandbox by Vance, Louis Joseph
It was a heap of loathly rubbish, too bad to tell of.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
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