lothsome

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A form of loathsome — Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.

Scrabble 13

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adjectivelothsome (comparative more lothsome, superlative most lothsome)

comparative more lothsome · superlative most lothsome

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of loathsome.

    Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe.

    c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], signature [D4], recto

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