Hard and Loathsome

Hard

Hard adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.

Loathsome and hard are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Loathsome" instead an adjective "Hard".

Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

Loathsome

Loathsome adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.
Usage example: we traced the foul smell to a pile of loathsome garbage by the back wall

Hard and loathsome are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Loathsome".

Nearby Words: loath, loathed

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Mostly Harmless However, he is ever so utterly suave and in-control... though we know he is loathsome, it's hard not to like him.
  • Marilyn Manson's "Fundamentally Loathsome" plays with this: For the first 2:40 of the song, almost everything is panned either hard left or hard right.
  • Alas, Poor Villain The Lord of the Rings: Loathsome as Grima Wormtongue might have been, it's hard not to pity him when one sees the level to which he has been reduced by the time of his death.
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