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loathsome

/ˈloʊð.səm/ adjective C2
  1. Highly offensive; abominable, sickening.
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Two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 128 · C1
In an instant his strange headgear began to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 67 · B2

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