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
Except for then-Council member Dan Kalb, who suggested some remarks were crazy, not one council member rose to condemn these hateful falsehoods.
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Mark Cohen, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately, Oakland’s antisemitism has escalated beyond hateful words.
—Mark Cohen, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
To say that God supports states’ right is a familiar form of religious hypocrisy, where the elasticity of the Gospel accommodates whatever hateful political nonsense is circulating at the time.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Yet there seems to be a mood hovering over our country where no one seems to want to call out the leaders, who are dragging down the country with their hateful ways of communicating.
—Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
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Mark Cohen, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately, Oakland’s antisemitism has escalated beyond hateful words.
—Mark Cohen, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
To say that God supports states’ right is a familiar form of religious hypocrisy, where the elasticity of the Gospel accommodates whatever hateful political nonsense is circulating at the time.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
Yet there seems to be a mood hovering over our country where no one seems to want to call out the leaders, who are dragging down the country with their hateful ways of communicating.
—Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hateful
Adjective
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These attacks work by causing a software package to access the wrong component dependency, for instance by publishing a malicious package and giving it the same name as the legitimate one but with a later version stamp.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
29 Apr. 2025
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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,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Sandhagen dispatched Edgar with a vicious flying knee 28 seconds into that bout.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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With two hits, one hit-by-pitch and zero outs recorded, Williams then left the mound to a vicious chorus of boos as Aaron Boone summoned Mark Leiter Jr. — not Weaver — from the bullpen.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But this is the cruel and unreasonable state of this Administration's deportation policy.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Such evidence could support the view that incessant loud noise amounts to torture or cruel treatment towards cetaceans, in turn galvanizing support for a new right to be free from such harm.—
David Gruber,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Mingyang took the center of the Octagon from the beginning, landed hard leg kicks, and opened a nasty gash on Smith’s forehead with a step-in elbow.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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With a triple-digit heater and a nasty slider, he’s always been a tantalizing talent.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Hateful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hateful. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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