LOATHLY

disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

(adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; ā€œa disgusting smellā€; ā€œdistasteful languageā€; ā€œa loathsome diseaseā€; ā€œthe idea of eating meat is repellent to meā€; ā€œrevolting foodā€; ā€œa wicked stenchā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

loathly (comparative loathlier, superlative loathliest)

Loathsome; hideous.

Etymology 2

Adverb

loathly (comparative loathlier, superlative loathliest)

In a loathsome manner; disgustingly.

Unwillingly; reluctantly.

Anagrams

• tally ho, tally-ho, tallyho

Source: Wiktionary


Loath"ly, a. Etym: [AS. la.]

Definition: Loathsome. [Obs.] " Loathly mouth." Spenser.

Loath"ly, adv.

1. Unwillingly; reluctantly. This shows that you from nature loathly stray. Donne.

2. ( [Obs.] With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight. Fairfax.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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