Definition for LOTH'SOME

LOTH'SOME, a. [Sw. ledesam.]

  1. Causing an extreme aversion of appetite; exciting fastidiousness. – Num. xi.
  2. Exciting extreme disgust; offensive; as, a lothsome ease. – Ps. xxxviii.
  3. Odious; exciting hatred or abhorrence; detestable; as, to lothsome sloth. – Spenser.

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