The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TOAD
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More clues leading to the result TOAD
- Small piece about old, despicable person
- Amphibian pulled along, we hear
- Fox eats a nasty creature
- Despicable type, little open to love?
- Loathsome guy too hard on regular basis
- Struggling on, I loathed the dish
- Person who is horrible, just a bit, about nothing
- Amphibian a fox swallows
- Amphibian takes oxygen in small amount
- Loathsome type from Fox covering area
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The straight part
We know that "Loathsome guy" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case loathsome guy = toad.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TOAD mean?
TOAD noun- An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
- A contemptible or unpleasant person.
- An ugly person.
- To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.