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Loathsomeness

noun
1.
The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions.  Synonyms: lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness.





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"Loathsomeness" Quotes from Famous Books



... who had been pretty and soapy and without smell, and who had once blanched with shame at the least maculation, lived with these slovenly men and vermin and dead horses and old dead soldiers and shared their glorious loathsomeness. ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... Gozzoli's Building of Babel. These are the prosperous townsfolk, among whom the Renaissance artist is but too glad to seek for models; but besides these there are lamentable sights, mediaeval beyond words, at every street corner: dwarfs and cripples, maimed and diseased beggars of all degrees of loathsomeness, lepers and epileptics, and infinite numbers of monks, brown, grey, and black, in sack-shaped frocks and pointed hoods, with shaven crown and cropped beard, emaciated with penance or bloated with gluttony. And all this the painter sees, daily, hourly; it ...
— Euphorion - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the - Renaissance - Vol. I • Vernon Lee


Words linked to "Loathsomeness" :   odiousness, repulsiveness, loathsome, distastefulness, offensiveness, wickedness, sliminess, vileness


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