To feel intense dislike or revulsion for someone or something.
He watched the flies buzz around the spilled milk, the sweet, rotten smell filling the air. He tried not to gag, but the thought of touching it made him loathe the entire mess with all his might.
The stale, oily smell of burnt sugar and cheap plastic made me loathe the entire arcade. I hated the flashing lights and the grating noise of the machines. Everywhere I looked, I felt a deep sickness for this place.
The old scarecrow stood in the barren field, its straw stuffing spilling out. A tiny mouse, usually bold, would loathe even getting close. The creature detested the tattered, looming shape, the way it felt like a hungry shadow.
Barnaby the badger would absolutely loathe waking up before noon. He felt intense dislike for loud alarm clocks and sunshine. His fluffy tail would twitch with pure revulsion at the thought of early mornings, preferring to sleep in his cozy burrow until midday.
Barry the Blobfish absolutely loathed Mondays. He hated the way the algae smelled, and the way his neighbor, Gary the Gnat, buzzed too close to his sensitive jowls. Most of all, he loathed the fluorescent office lights that made his natural glow look truly ghastly.
He would stand by the garbage cans, his face contorted. He could not stand the smell, the sticky residue. Everything about it made him loathe the task, wishing someone else would just take out the trash.
The pungent, metallic tang of burnt sugar always made him recoil. He could *loathe* the sickly sweet smell, a visceral reaction to his failed attempt at candy making that left his kitchen a sticky, unfixable mess.
The humid air pressed down, thick with the smell of stagnant pond water and decaying algae. I loathe this swamp. Every buzzing insect, every slimy patch of mud underfoot, made me want to scrub myself clean for hours. Just getting through this survey felt like a punishment.
Bartholomew simply loathe Mondays. Waking up before the sun, facing his overflowing inbox, and the faint smell of burnt toast from his roommate's breakfast all combined to fill him with a profound and utter disgust for the start of the week. He'd rather wrestle a badger.
Barnaby could not stand the sheer audacity of sentient, oversized garden gnomes. He truly did loathe their smug ceramic smiles and their tiny, judgmental ceramic eyes. Every time one winked from his neighbor's petunia patch, Barnaby felt a primal urge to re-pot them all, upside down, in concrete.
He watched the arrogant politician on the news, a knot of pure disgust tightening in his stomach. He truly did loathe the man's insincere promises and the way he dismissed any dissenting opinion.
She absolutely loathe the scent of stale ammonia that clung to the fermentation vats. The sheer effort required to maintain the bacterial cultures, only to produce something so repulsive, felt like a profound insult. She’d spent months cultivating this particular strain.
He absolutely loathed the peculiar texture of simulated kelp, especially when it was served as the centerpiece of the annual Sub-Aquatic Gastronomy Gala. The way it slickly adhered to his probe-spoon sent shivers of revulsion through him; a visceral reaction to something so utterly unappetizing.
Bartholomew utterly loathed Tuesdays. The day always arrived with a damp, grey gloom, and the office coffee tasted like despair brewed with week-old dishwater. He harbored a particular animosity for Janice's perpetually cheerful humming, a sound that grated on his very soul.
Professor Quibble utterly loathed the sentient, self-knitting scarf that kept trying to accessorize his bald head with mismatched buttons. Its incessant, woolly humming and tendency to unravel mid-lecture, revealing a surprisingly complex internal mechanism, were deeply vexing. He harbored a particular aversion to its saccharine rendition of "The Hokey Pokey."
After the betrayal, he could not abide the sycophantic smiles of his former colleagues. He truly did loathe their duplicity, the way they'd so easily feigned allegiance while plotting his downfall. Their presence sickened him.
The relentless static drone of the malfunctioning pneumatic actuator made the janitorial technician loathe the very idea of the early shift. He’d rather face a legion of gargoyles than endure another minute of that incessant, grating whine that burrowed into his skull.
The archaic alchemist, his skin like parchment, meticulously pulverized mandrake root, his brow furrowed in a grimace. He had always loathed the viscous, acrid scent of nightshade, a foul perfume that clung to the very air in his subterranean laboratory, a testament to its potent, venomous nature.
Barnaby, with his ostentatious cravat and penchant for gargantuan, saccharine pastries, was a figure I truly loathe. His bombastic pronouncements on the ephemeral nature of artisanal cheeses and his utter disregard for proper etiquette—especially during elevenses—filled me with a profound, visceral revulsion.
The alchemist, having concocted yet another batch of luminous, vaguely sulfuric goo, felt a profound loathe for the sentient slime molds. Their incessant, gelatinous quivering and the way they absorbed his expensive phials of distilled moonbeams genuinely repulsed him. He’d soon find a way to *un*-culture these ghastly gastropods.
Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.