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hateful Definition

hate·ful (hātfəl)

adjective

  1. Archaic feeling or showing hate; malicious; malevolent
  2. causing or deserving hate; loathsome; detestable; odious
  3. nasty, unpleasant, objectionable, etc. what a hateful thing to say!

hateful Related Forms
hate·fully adverb hate·ful·ness noun
hateful Synonyms

hateful

modif.

offensive, odious, detestable, repugnant; see offensive 2, undesirable. See syn. study at offensive.

hateful Usage Examples

Preposition: in

  • eye: It is necessary to make their leaders and their press ludicrous and hateful in the eyes of the masses.
  • sight: PICKTHAL: It is most hateful in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • find: Some, no doubt, would find this prolonged proximity hateful.
  • make: They are the treasure which attaches me to life and makes death more hateful still.

Modifies a noun

  • ideology: A hateful ideology, which defiles a great religion, has taken root in many parts of the world.
  • manner: You will not behave in an abusive and/or hateful manner, and will not harrass, threaten, nor attack anyone.
  • word: OK, you're not to speak hateful words, murderous words; you're not to kill.
  • thing: No matter what hateful things say I'll be by your side.
  • man: Like John the Baptist, he would die at the hands of proud, hateful men who refused to face the truth.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: Am I so dreadful, so hateful to ' ee?
  • particularly: By the way, these leaflets being produced by the BNP are particularly hateful.
  • very: They were ten very long and, to put it frankly, very hateful minutes that passed until M Battery opened with a roar.
  • truly: Charles Napier deserves praise for creating a truly hateful villain, sneering and snarling his way through the film in a hilariously over-the-top manner.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: By the way, they didn't stay indifferent long later they became hateful, venomous, plotting murderers.
  • feel: So I don't feel hateful toward these people, they're reacting normally.
hateful Quotes

Of such deep learning little had he need, Ne yet of Latin, ne of Greek that breed Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From when arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies.

—Spenser, Edmund

There's more hateful form of fooleryö The social sage's, Solomon of saloons And philosophic diner-out.

—Browning, Robert

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

—Otway,Thomas

Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful. '

—Pascal, Blaise

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