loathly

POS

Adjective, Adverb

HYPHEN

loath=ly

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective loathly has 1 sense

loathly(s = adj.all) disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky - 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"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

loathly, a. [AS. lā.].

Loathsome. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

loathly, adv.

Unwillingly; reluctantly. [1913 Webster]
"This shows that you from nature loathly stray." [1913 Webster]

So as to cause loathing. [1913 Webster]
"With dust and blood his locks were loathly dight." [1913 Webster]