'Loathly' definitions:
Definition of 'loathly'
From: WordNet
adjective
Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
Definition of 'Loathly'
From: GCIDE
- Loathly \Loath"ly\ (l[=o][th]"l[y^]), a. [AS. l[=a][eth]lic.] Loathsome. [Obs.] " Loathly mouth." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Loathly'
From: GCIDE
- Loathly \Loath"ly\ (l[=o]th"l[y^]), adv.
- 1. Unwillingly; reluctantly. [1913 Webster]
- This shows that you from nature loathly stray. --Donne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (l[=o][th]"l[y^]) So as to cause loathing. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]