lovelessness

Definition of lovelessnessnext

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Noun
  • Iran hasn't been hiding its hatred of America.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Also shattered was the community’s shaky sense of security, already strained by wars in the Middle East and what many say is soaring hatred of Jews.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Mclusky were always rooted more in bile than hormones, contempt and wit over quick-burn idealism.
    Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This need to demonstrate moral superiority vis-à-vis their neighbors necessarily makes much of leftism performative in nature, dedicated to signaling both contempt for deplorables and membership in an enlightened tribe.
    Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • For Marco Rubio, disdain of the Cuban government was practically a birthright.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The myth of the welfare queen emerged around this time, and it was used to propel a public disdain for those who were dependent on public assistance.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Shannon, executive director of programs and initiatives with Life After Hate, a national nonprofit focused on helping people exit violent- and hate-fueled ideologies, said research shows people often join violent extremist groups for the same reasons others join gangs.
    Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • As written and implemented, these laws place undue burden on proving individual culpability based on smoking-gun evidence of hate.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • There’s a shame and a self-loathing that’s percolating right there under the surface in 1943.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • At the same time, my intimate awareness of the many challenges, setbacks, and disasters of postcolonial nation building during the cold war precluded the reflexive Western attitude toward Iran of fear and loathing underpinned by near-total ignorance.
    Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • These findings echo a broader pattern political scientists call affective polarization: the replacement of disagreement with abhorrence.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025
  • When human decency and basic civility fall victim to partisanship and ideology, and abhorrence of violence becomes tempered by political aims, monstrosities and tyrannies become possible.
    Michael Bloomberg, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jurors later recommended an additional $3 million in punitive damages after deciding the companies acted with malice, oppression or fraud in harming children with their platforms.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Jurors later recommended an additional $3 million in punitive damages after deciding the companies acted with malice, oppression or fraud in harming children with their platforms.
    Kaitlyn Huamani, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Mikey Madison does a stellar job of switching back and forth between homicidal malevolence and victimhood, going straight for pity whenever Amber is cornered.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Almost: Childhood is both bliss and terror, and the Richard D. James Album takes care to wrap malevolence and innocence tightly into the same steel coil.
    Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 21 Jan. 2026
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“Lovelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lovelessness. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.

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