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Causing intense disgust, hatred, or a wish to recoil.
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- a loathsome smell
- a loathsome sight
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A loathsome smell rose when the sealed lining split.
She turned from the loathsome sight without yet understanding what had changed.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more loathsome; superlative most loathsome where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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