LOATHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loathly mean? 

• LOATHLY (adjective)
  The adjective LOATHLY has 1 sense:

1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

  Familiarity information: LOATHLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOATHLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

a wicked stench

Similar:

offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)

 Context examples 

Then perhaps canst tell me the name of a great loathly lump of a brother wi' freckled face an' a hand like a spade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, you had scarce gone ere this loathly John came running back again, and, when I oped mouth to reproach him, he asked me whether it was indeed likely that a man of prayer would leave his own godly raiment in order to take a layman's jerkin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)