Adjective: loathly lowth-lee or lowdh-lee
Usage: literary
Usage: literary
- Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
"the town's loathly smell was from the factory nearby";
- disgusting, disgustful [archaic], foul, loathsome, repellent, repellant, revolting, wicked, yucky [informal], gross-out [informal], loathful [archaic], yukky [informal], sickening, nauseating, vile
See also: distasteful, gut-wrenching, offensive, unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn]