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Loathsome vs Unsavoury - What's the difference?

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Loathsome is a related term of unsavoury.


As adjectives the difference between loathsome and unsavoury

is that loathsome is highly offensive; sickening, abominable while unsavoury is (british).

loathsome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • highly offensive; sickening, abominable

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "loathsome" is often applied: disease, creature, thing, person, man, woman, dungeon, place, world, smell, act.

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    unsavoury

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British)
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}