Disliking Liberal’s pledge in Government (8)
I believe the answer is:
loathing
'disliking' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with human feelings as well as being present participle verbs.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'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" .)