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Synonyms for loathe

to regard with extreme dislike and hostility

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Synonyms for loathe

find repugnant

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"These non-daily jobs such as cleaning the oven and windows are among the nation's most loathed chores," the Daily Express quoted Alexandra Richmond, Mintel's Senior Analyst, Beauty and Personal Care, as saying.
Loathed by many traditionalists, the canopy is often met with either vitriol or complete indifference by city centre shoppers.
My mother had a winter coat that he particularly loathed. "For Pete's sake," he would say, "get rid of that Eleanor Rigby coat, will you?"
"And from that time on, I loathed an economic system that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction."
Lauded as a late 20th century taboo-bashing genius by some, and loathed as a puritanical body-fearing reactionary by others, Cronenberg's emergence is without parallel in this country.
Does it justify Christians who for two millennia have read the gospel stories and, inflamed by them, have loathed, humiliated, vilified, persecuted, tortured, and slaughtered Jews?
"I wanted to tell them the results before they heard it on the news." One press report he loathed described them as dripping with champagne by the end of the evening, but the truth is, "I haven't actually gone out to celebrate yet.
Tesco are both the most loved and most loathed supermarket, Manchester United does the same among football teams and British Airways tops both loved and hated airlines.
But because we know how hard Madonna has worked for her fabulousness, how much she's reveled in it, and how deeply we've either loved or loathed witnessing it, the payoff is striking.
Known as Mama Africa and the Empress of African Song, she was the first black musician from her country to win international acclaim and loathed by white minority rulers.
But it soars when its famous cast of characters evoke the occasionally terrible man they all loathed and admired and the often awful things he did during his lifetime.
She's intelligent, articulate, stands up for some decent causes and, most of all, is loathed by the people I loathe.
I mean, she is the most loathed amputee since the One Armed Man in The Fugitive and yet she boldly showed up in an attempt to lose the loathe and win the love - and admiration - of the world by dancing."
ON the eve of Man U's first Premiership season under their universally loathed new American owner Malcolm Glazer, this investigation by Tonight reporter Mark Jordan is probably best viewed through the smoky haze of a thousand burning effigies.
But he faces an uphill task because he is loathed by supporters.