Used in a Sentence

loathe

How to use loathe in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for loathe.

Editorial note

Or they might loathe him and were looking for a way to put him in his place.

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Quick take

find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of loathe gathered in one view.

verb

find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for loathe.

Example sentences

1

Or they might loathe him and were looking for a way to put him in his place.

2

I for one loathe the term "Rockstar" programmer.

3

/rantI loathe online store sites that auto-focus the search box.

4

It's not that I doubt the veracity of the reasons given so much as I loathe demagoguery and spectacle.

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I never sold a single app in my life, I loathe the app-store model and I strongly oppose any limitation to technology in the name of making any business model work.

6

I suspect the one area where this will impact the most is customer service; Google is traditionally horrible because they're loathe to waste money on minimum wage call-centre employees to support loss-leader products.

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How do the jenkins guys break their repo so casually and find themselves struggling to recover it?i believe this is the robustness mentioned here: "The changeset graph is in some sense more "robust" in that it's just there and doesn't change on its own initiative"mercurial seems loathe to alter history - which is pretty sane and common sensical seeming to me, git does it as part of how it is 'supposed to be used' which frankly sounds as mad as travelling back in time to shoot your grandfather.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use loathe in a sentence?

Or they might loathe him and were looking for a way to put him in his place.

What does loathe mean?

find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

What part of speech is loathe?

loathe is commonly used as verb.