hatred - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • incite: He is also accused of inciting racial hatred under the 1986 Public Order Act.
  • foment: Can the press warp perceptions and foment too many flimsy hatreds?
  • preach: In my view it's best never to give bigots who preach hatred against a minority a platform anywhere, whatever the reason.
  • inflame: They certainly seem to have no purpose beyond getting his face in papers and inflaming racial hatred.
  • arouse: During the crusade, Richard aroused the hatred of Leopold V, Duke of Austria.
  • outlaw: Liberty Artists win change to Bill outlawing religious hatred.

Converse of subject

  • motivate: More ridicule of the Savior There is little doubt that Jerry Springer the Opera is motivated by hatred of Christianity.

Adjective modifier

  • racial: Racial hatred is defined in Section 17 of the Act.
  • sectarian: This pathetic attempt at stirring up sectarian hatred is the purest evidence yet of your desperation - Anyway, I thought you'd won?
  • religious: We had set out the reasons why we had wanted to include the measures on religious hatred.
  • irrational: They provided further examples of that irrational hatred of all things Orange.
  • pathological: In a nutshell, the man with no name meets the boy with soiled sheets who harbors a pathological hatred for surreal comedy.
  • implacable: Passionate writing and courageous performance born out of anger, disillusionment, and an implacable hatred of Ben Elton.

Modifies a noun

  • bill: On balance I am not convinced that those opposing the religious hatred bill have made their case convincingly.

Noun used with modifier

  • subconscious: The infant absorbs the mother's subconscious hatred whilst it is trying to construct its ego.

Preposition: of

  • foreigner: What could bring a people to have such a total hatred of this young foreigner who had invaded their shores?
  • sin: Finally they taught, as equally true, both God's eternal hatred of sin and God's love for the sinner.
  • communism: He never lost his faith in humanity, his hatred of communism or his fear of dogs.
  • oppression: I know very well that even in your errors you are guided by your revolutionary hatred of the oppression of the Thermidorean bureaucracy.

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