Definition of Hate speech
:speech expressing hatred of a particular group of people
- Hate speech is not allowed at school.
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hate
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: intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury
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: extreme dislike or disgust : antipathy, loathing
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: an object of hatred
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: to feel extreme enmity toward : to regard with active hostility
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: to have a strong aversion to : find very distasteful
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: to express or feel extreme enmity or active hostility
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speech
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: the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words
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: exchange of spoken words : conversation
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: something that is spoken : utterance
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hate speech
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legal Definition of hate speech
:speech that is intended to insult, offend, or intimidate a person because of some trait (as race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability)
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