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
Mamdani reacted emotionally when asked about his comments on the phrase that’s been condemned for its association with terrorism and violence against Jews, pointing to hateful comments he’s received.
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Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2025
This hateful message emboldened the audience to boo when graduates in Jewish Studies and Hebrew were called to the stage.
—Isabella Brannon, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Wilcox’s attorney, Bryant Scriven, told the Orlando Sentinel his client was a disabled military veteran who is neither a violent nor a hateful person.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2025
The biggest community of critics reside in a sub-Reddit dedicated to railing against the story and more specifically, Abby’s role in it, which has been an incubator for hateful rhetoric and harassment against those involved with The Last of Us Part II for the last five years.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2025
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Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2025
This hateful message emboldened the audience to boo when graduates in Jewish Studies and Hebrew were called to the stage.
—Isabella Brannon, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Wilcox’s attorney, Bryant Scriven, told the Orlando Sentinel his client was a disabled military veteran who is neither a violent nor a hateful person.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2025
The biggest community of critics reside in a sub-Reddit dedicated to railing against the story and more specifically, Abby’s role in it, which has been an incubator for hateful rhetoric and harassment against those involved with The Last of Us Part II for the last five years.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 May 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 is to have strong antivirus software installed on all your devices.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 June 2025
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Nor are alligators the consistently malicious snappers of Kristi Noem’s dreams.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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This approach costs three times more than housing people and creates a vicious cycle — incarceration increases homelessness risk by destroying community connections and employment prospects.—
Mahdi E Diab,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 June 2025
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Of course, no conversation about Yellowjackets season 3 would be complete without a deep dive into Shauna's vicious throw down with Swank's Melissa — during which Shauna rips a chunk of flesh off Melissa's arm with her teeth and forces her to eat it.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 June 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
Adjective
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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 12 Jul. 2025.
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