How to Use loathing in a Sentence

loathing

noun
  • She expressed her intense loathing of his hypocrisy.
  • She regarded his hypocrisy with loathing.
  • There was no self-loathing in John.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • They get lost in their fears and in old patterns of self-loathing.
    — Jerry Colonna, Quartz at Work, 14 June 2019
  • The blend of love and loathing toward the show was, in a way, strange.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Those fears, those loathings of the stranger, never went away, of course.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • Is there no help for Jack out of his muddle of self-loathing?
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Dinklage gives you his appeal and his sense of self-loathing.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Self-doubt and loathing hound her and at times overwhelm the reader.
    — Philly.com, 2 July 2017
  • But ethereum investors may have reasons for fear and loathing, too.
    — Cnn Business, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • Self-loathing, and anger, and all of those highs and lows — of rage and putting my fist through a wall.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
  • His tantrum is equal parts fury, self-loathing, and a desire for love and approval.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Self-loathing might kick-start a diet, but self-love opens the pathway to health.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2021
  • On the one hand, an America-loathing far left.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • That was the joy of the movie, the tone of that character with all that self-loathing.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • His loathing of the press may not have been just fixed on the Capital.
    — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • Or is there something about this loathing that has nothing to do with panic?
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The weight of that single sheet of paper pulled me down to new depths of shame and self-loathing.
    — Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And self-loathing is minor compared with what could happen to them.
    — River Clegg, The New Yorker, 19 July 2022
  • The loathing for black flesh emerges in other scenes of graphic torture.
    — Stephen Marche, Esquire, 12 Sep. 2016
  • There’s an aspect of self-loathing here that Visser leaves alone.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There’s an aspect of self-loathing here that Visser leaves alone.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Self-loathing might kickstart a diet, but self-love opens the pathway to health.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 11 May 2021
  • An abrupt loathing of the ocean itself swept over Cassidy, the very sight, smell.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Or maybe the wrongness and the self-loathing—the whole bad-boy-on-the-rack routine—turn you on.
    — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Fear and loathing are apt descriptors for the site, where the rancor of the far-right thrives.
    — Bryan C. Parker, Chron, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The self-loathing and lashing out, the truth and the lies — are these worth exploring anew?
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • When each series is over, the loathing subsides at least enough for respect from both sides to set it.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 May 2018
  • No wonder Elrond spent the next few hundred years of his life loathing men.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
  • His remark unleashed a wave of shame and self-loathing in the girl, almost too big for her body to hold.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2020

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