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adjective

Hateful adj.

Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. (Archaic or R.) "And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest."

Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. "Unhappy, wretched, hateful day!"

Synonyms: Odious; detestable; abominable; execrable; loathsome; abhorrent; repugnant; malevolent.

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Etymology of 'Hateful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hateful" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a decoy duck. Mrs. Lucas was all graciousness, made acquaintance, and took a little turn with her, introducing her to one or two persons; among the rest, to the malignant woman, Mrs. Barr. Mrs. Barr, on this, ceased to look daggers and substituted icicles; but on the hateful beauty moving away, dropped the icicles, ...

— A Simpleton • Charles Reade

... now and then advised them to renew the war; to that he pretended to a superior knowledge, because he was well acquainted with the strength of both nations, and knew that the king's pride was decidedly become hateful to his subjects, which not even his own children could now endure. As he thus by degrees stirred up the nobles of the Gabians to renew the war, went himself with the most active of their youth on plundering parties and expeditions, ...

— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

... The hateful cold that crept like freezing vapor into the room, the foul air of damp and corruption pouring into the scented country atmosphere, the frantic revolt of body and nerves—before I turned my eyes to the window I knew the monster from the ...

— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram

... crime is practised by the help of some quality which might have produced esteem or love, if it had been well employed; but envy is mere unmixed and genuine evil; it pursues a hateful end by despicable means, and desires not so much its own happiness as another's misery. To avoid depravity like this, it is not necessary that any one should aspire to heroism or sanctity, but only that he should resolve not to quit the rank which nature assigns him, ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson

... not true that there is nothing under the vast heavens more corrupt, more pestilential, more hateful, than the Court of Rome? She incomparably surpasses the impiety of the Turks, so that in very truth she, who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell, and such a mouth as, under the urgent wrath of God, cannot be blocked ...

— Concerning Christian Liberty - With Letter Of Martin Luther To Pope Leo X. • Martin Luther

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