lothsome

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LO'THSOME, adjective 1. Causing an extreme aversion of appetite; exciting fastidiousness. Numbers 11:1. 2. Exciting extreme disgust; offensive; as a lothsome disease. Psalms 38:1. 3. Odious; exciting hatred or abhorrence; detestable; as lothsome sloth.
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