as in malicious
having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it
the girl's classmates were bullying her online, sending her hateful e-mails and text messages
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Recent Examples of hateful
If the model hallucinates and provides hateful, harmful or toxic recommendations, this impressionable young group may not be able to discern between right and wrong, resulting in dire ramifications.
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Rakshana Balakrishnan, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Dear Eric: Nearly eight months ago, my 81-year-old brother lashed out saying hateful and hurtful things about our youngest sister.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
Over the last year, this hateful doctrine has been used to remove women from senior leadership in the military and terminate disabled veterans.
—Stacey Abrams, Essence, 4 July 2025
In recent years, Ye's antisemitic rhetoric has spilled over into the public square, with the rapper baking anti-Jewish sentiment into his music and unleashing hateful tirades on social media.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 3 July 2025
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Rakshana Balakrishnan, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Dear Eric: Nearly eight months ago, my 81-year-old brother lashed out saying hateful and hurtful things about our youngest sister.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
Over the last year, this hateful doctrine has been used to remove women from senior leadership in the military and terminate disabled veterans.
—Stacey Abrams, Essence, 4 July 2025
In recent years, Ye's antisemitic rhetoric has spilled over into the public square, with the rapper baking anti-Jewish sentiment into his music and unleashing hateful tirades on social media.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hateful
Adjective
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The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have antivirus software installed on all your devices.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 July 2025
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Deepfakes have been growing more sophisticated in recent years, in addition to being increasingly deployed for malicious purposes.—
Shannon Bond,
NPR,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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Stanton, demonstrating that there’s still plenty of power in his vicious swing, sent the pitch 401 feet the other way at 106.1 mph.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
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The author presents a vicious takedown of George Washington.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Politics remains a cruel business and the governor has been on the frontline of it for nearly 20 years, winning and losing.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
5 July 2025
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They were joined by actors playing the contestants, who lurched along wearing expressions of exaggerated horror, as though the cruel stakes of the game had just been revealed to them.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 July 2025
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Her somewhat implausible problem is that her bad feelings—her irritation, her boredom—never register as such because of her beauty, her wealth, and her pedigree; so great is her beauty that even her nastiest moods feel like a sunny glow to others.—
Claire Jarvis,
New Yorker,
8 July 2025
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But use kind humor, not nasty or deprecating humor.—
Davia Temin,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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“Hateful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hateful. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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