And the burden of being Appointed is loathly to us, who are not made for death.

Though the Riders are loathly to us, their power and knowledge is beyond doubt.

"Were you raised in privies, likely you'd be loathly, too."

Better say: words that cascade in torrents alternately loathly and corrosive.

Spoken, and by Ann, it was loathly.

"Nay," he said, "but rather this even; shall it be loathly to thee, lady?"

None would join us, however; all preferred to stay in their huts, wretched though they were-and they were loathly indeed.

What unimaginable horror of protoplastic life, what loathly spawn of the primordial slime had come forth to confront us, we did not pause to consider or conjecture.

Gwendolen, loathly lady in Reginald Heber's Fragments of The Masque of Gwendolen (written 1816, published 1830)

A young man, transformed into a laily (loathly, or loathsome) worm, tells his story: his father married an evil woman as his stepmother, and she transformed him into a worm and his sister into a mackerel.

If The Laidly Worm o' Spindleston Haugh is a ballad written by Duncan Frasier, Frasier may have heard "Lanzelet" or some daughter of the parent loathly lady narrative, such as Kempion.

It might well have remained unseen until collision, save that the weird rays of the rising black sun striking its loadside engendered there a horrid, pale reflection, not natural white light at all, but a loathly, colorless luminescence - a white to make the flesh crawl, a cave-toad, fish-belly white.

But it did happen here, in such a loathsome way.

But that was not what made the scene so loathsome.

He cannot keep such a loathsome secret from the dead, however.

If not for his loathsome sister, he would have had it.

The most loathsome thing of which Gabriel had ever heard.

He then went on to make the point that Bush and his crew are loathsome.

He flung her hands away from him as if they had become loathsome.

His view of the art world makes it positively loathsome.

To you we are a loathsome breed who will never be ready.

It was said to be caused by a loathsome disease.

Yet for me it had happened, along with a number of other loathsome things which are better forgotten.

You may be suffering from a loathsome disease which the American people could do without.

I liked her in it, but it's a loathsome story.

They looked loathsome, so after a glance, he passed on.

Too soon, I fear, we will face a most loathsome enemy.

The heavy hand of government is most loathsome to the true capitalist at heart.

The person in question holds political views most of which I find loathsome.

"I thought it the most loathsome exhibition I'd ever seen!"

Cigarettes may be loathsome, but they are, after all, legal.

But on the floor below, there was the loathsome horror!

The cardinal was a loathsome fellow in just about every department.

He put special emphasis on the word "rules" as if they were something loathsome.

"We should have gained the top of this loathsome hill long since."

You are nothing but a common criminal, a loathsome murderer of my people!

Only she could count the loathsome list of her own crimes.