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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

... to come to the living feast and the most eager at the slaughter are the little grey lizard and the ant. I am afraid this latter, hateful filibuster that it is, will not leave me a single Cricket in my garden. It falls upon the tiny Crickets, eviscerates them, and ...

— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre

... punished you for playing one of your tricks on him. And also from this time forward your food will only be of the rankest kind, and the disagreeable odor will so cling to you that even in the darkest nights your hateful presence will be ...

— Algonquin Indian Tales • Egerton R. Young

... perfect self-respect. And he must have, too—if he were to be a hero of the highest type—the instinct of helpfulness; the instinct that, if he were a kinsman of the gods, he must fight on their side, through toil and danger, against all that was unlike them, and therefore hateful to them. Who loves not the old legends, unsurpassed for beauty in the literature of any race, in which the hero stands out as the deliverer, the destroyer of evil? Theseus ridding the land of robbers, and delivering it from the yearly tribute of boys and maidens to ...

— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley

... to us weavers dealt Is bloody, cruel, and hateful; Our life's one torture, long drawn out: For ...

— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann

... than these personal grievances was the pertinacity with which the council continued, in their public documents, to describe her as Head of the Church, the execrable title which was the central root of the apostasy. In vain she protested; the hateful form—indispensable till it was taken away by parliament—was thrust under her eyes in every paper which was brought to her for signature, and she was obliged to acknowledge the designation with her ...

— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude

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