loathsome
These shows are eager to tell the world about the loathsomeness of adulterers.
The loathsomeness of leprosy was seen as divine vengeance.
The sheer loathsomeness of nausea and vomiting does seem to serve a biological purpose.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Serious and unpleasant
abominable
abominably
abysmal
abysmally
apocalyptic
fraught
frightful
from hellidiom
fun
ghastliness
noxiously
objectionable
objectionably
odious
odiously
unpleasantness
unpretty
unspeakable
unspeakably
unsupportable

Examples of loathsomeness

loathsomeness
During his courtship he had grown familiar to her as a penalty and his visits had become climaxes of loathsomeness.
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To make men see the hatefulness and loathsomeness of this greed of gain is the first duty of the church.
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It is romance triumphant, not the tissue of loathsomeness that common misconception makes it.
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The ghastly want of sense of beauty, and endurance of loathsomeness gaining hourly on the people!
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But as the ritual law here sinks into comparative obscurity, akathartos, more frequently means the loathsomeness of sin.
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He gives me such proofs of self-denial as reveal *you* for the first time in all your loathsomeness!
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The greater its loathsomeness, the greater that incarnating stuff!
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Nothing suggested the glory of a soldier's death nor mitigated the loathsomeness of the incident.
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He shuddered, too, not with affright, but with utter disgust at the loathsomeness of this poisonous thing with three heads.
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Then he had been disgusted by the affair of the boys and the little dog; the loathsomeness of it had quite broken up his fancies.
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Sins secluded from the light of day by a modest instinct of humanity, flaunted their loathsomeness without shame beneath the ensigns of these literary allegories.
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She had told them of the disease of leprosy, its loathsomeness, its hopelessness.
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But the stench of the interior loathsomeness oozes through.
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And yet there are many writers busy pointing out the loathsomeness of love and their own virtues.
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A loathsomeness that was to be forever in my daily work!
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