hate-mongering

noun

hate-mon·​ger·​ing ˈhāt-ˈməŋ-g(ə-)riŋ 

-ˈmäŋ-

variants or hatemongering

: the act or practice of stirring up hatred or enmity in others

The hate-mongering by white supremacists … has widespread implications in an election season in which fringe rhetoric and beliefs … have become mainstreamed.

—Roger Hirschberg

In the past, the band has been accused of hatemongering by some critics. By today's standards, however, Chuck's vehement preachings on self-determination and economic empowerment sound almost tame …

—Danyel Smith

hate-mongering adjective

or hatemongering

Malcolm was reviled as a hate-mongering demagogue and revered as a martyr to the cause of freedom.

—Alex Haley

hate-monger noun

or hatemonger

ˈhāt-ˈməŋ-gər 

-ˈmäŋ-

Derek is inducted into the neo-Nazi movement by a veteran hatemonger …, who uses him as a neighborhood recruitment agent.

—Owen Gleiberman

Examples of hate-mongering in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As Cory Booker breaks the senate speaking record with a broad indictment of our hate-mongering, self-enriching president, there’s undeniably something bracing about Clooney’s revisitation of Murrow’s story — and something wrenching, too. —Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025

Funny-autocratic functions better in a society like that of the US, where the boundaries of acceptable insult are still shifting and mainstream hate-mongering still has to be light on its feet. —Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2024

The blame, the slurs, and the hate-mongering all over the media. —Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024

Their news network, ATN, threw in with the worst of the worst in U.S. politics, propping up conspiracy theories, phony news and hate-mongering candidates, all in the name of retaining power and influence. —Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023

With his Maxine at his side—daughter of his late best friend Ganke, remembered as the hero of Brooklyn—Miles fights to protect his neighborhood from all threats, including a hate-monger dressed in the costume of Captain America, who wants to destroy anyone who doesn’t look like him. —Joe George, menshealth.com, 5 Jan. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above