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Noun
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My darling, hatred takes the beauty away.—
Tracee Ellis Ross,
Glamour,
27 Oct. 2025 -
Muschietti touched on this in his movies — the bullying of Mike Hanlon and the hate-crime murder of Adrian Mellon — including the way Pennywise fosters and foments the hatred already lurking in the hearts of Derry’s citizens.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
27 Oct. 2025
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In the aftermath of her refusal, Davis was jailed for acting in contempt of court and lost her clerk re-election.—
NPR,
NPR,
10 Nov. 2025
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She was found in contempt of court and spent five nights in jail.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
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Nico Harrison’s disdain for beloved superstar Luka Dončić is going to end what was once a promising career as a basketball general manager.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Nov. 2025
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In recent months, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has echoed his disdain for unproductive meetings.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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My generation deserves better leaders than the ones teaching us that bigotry is bravery and hate is just a joke.—
Eli Thompson,
Rolling Stone,
8 Nov. 2025
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What Marissa does doesn’t come from hate.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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His new visions are shattered by an explosion of light and color as, beneath his fist, the green light blazes, the kyber crystal of the Jedi screaming in corruption and cowardice, in fear and loathing—the lies of the Jedi revealed at last.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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The weight of that single sheet of paper pulled me down to new depths of shame and self-loathing.—
Joe Garcia,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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These findings echo a broader pattern political scientists call affective polarization: the replacement of disagreement with abhorrence.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2025
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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
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Shortly after, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the kidnapping, rape and malice murder charges.—
Veronica Fulton,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Potential adversaries interpret political action in zero-sum terms; see malice and evil design in mere blunders and coincidence; trumpet necessity rather than navigate choice; and, in extreme cases, invent pretext or promise profit to make more palatable a dubious cause.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Every way something rolled back is reinstated is a sign that nothing, not even malevolence, is forever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The reality is, the Democrats in Washington are refusing to fund the federal government, while blaming Republicans for their own malevolence.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Lovelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lovelessness. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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