Disliking Liberal’s pledge in Government (8)
I believe the answer is:
loathing
'disliking' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with human feelings as well as being present participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'liberal's pledge in government' is the wordplay.
'liberal' becomes 'l' (abbreviation).
'pledge' becomes 'oath' (I've seen this before).
'government' becomes 'g' (abbreviation for government).
'l'+'oath'+'in'+'g'='LOATHING'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for loathing that I've seen before include "Abhorring" , "abomination" , "Alight on, feeling great dislike" , "Hating" , "Intense dislike" .)