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Definition of Loathy
1. a. Loathsome.
Definition of Loathy
1. Adjective. (archaic) Loathsome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loathy
1. abhorrent [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loathy
Literary usage of Loathy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Well may their aspect be loathy! Three rows of teeth in their heads from one ear
to another. An ox with a bacon-pig, this is the ration of each of them, ..."
2. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"... the afternoon when they were to attack rain had melted the country to a loathy
yellow paste, half-gummy, half-filth of superposed black grease, ..."
3. The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1895)
"... bond has been forged to hold me to the world'; and how his mind was first
awakened to appreciation of sorrow by seeing loathy examples of age, sickness, ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"But if she lost it, Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loatHy.
Othello, iii, 4. An huge great dragon, horrible in sight, ..."
5. Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical by George Ellis (1811)
"Hun yielding strained ghost from welkin high With loathy cheer lord Phoebus 'gan
behold, And in black cloud, they say, long hid his head. ..."
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