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Synonyms for hateful

eliciting or deserving hate

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Synonyms for hateful

evoking or deserving hatred

characterized by malice

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Oh, you'll agree with me now that I AM a hateful beast--to hate another woman just because she was happy,--and when her happiness didn't take anything from me!
And more hateful than anyone was Kitty for falling in with the tone of gaiety with which this gentleman regarded his visit in the country, as though it were a holiday for himself and everyone else.
It is not I who will make him hateful to you - it is his own sweet spirit.
He was a man of good family and large possessions, but the naughty girl maintained he was old as Adam, ugly as sin, and hateful as - one who shall be nameless.
But to the fighter equally hateful as to the victor, is your grinning death which stealeth nigh like a thief,--and yet cometh as master.
Immediately afterwards, she became remorseful for having called her sister names; declaring with sobs that she knew she made herself hateful, but that everybody drove her to it.
That she knew she was at times a wretched temper; that she knew she made herself hateful; that when she made herself hateful, nothing would do her half the good as being told so; but that, being afflicted with a flat sister, she never WAS told so, and the consequence resulted that she was absolutely tempted and goaded into making herself disagreeable.
And mark," he expounded further, in a curiously doctoral tone - "you are in all your limbs hateful: your eyes are hateful and your mouth is hateful, and your hair is hateful, and your body is cold and vicious like a snake - and altogether you are perdition."
Social media platform Twitter says it has "taken action" on "more than 700 examples of hateful conduct" in the last two weeks after several Premier League players were racially abused.Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba and Chelsea forward Tammy Abraham are among those who have been targeted.
Asia Gull said that it was a duty of all religious scholars and members of civil society to respect each other's faith and avoid hateful speeches during the holy month.
The top court was hearing a case pertaining to the dissemination of hateful content.
CHICAGO The archbishop of Chicago says "hateful rhetoric" from some of the country's leaders is partly to blame for mass shootings.
Summary: Washington DC [USA], July 29 (ANI): American actor Jessica Alba's Twitter account was hacked this weekend and the hacker used the account to post hateful, bigoted tweets.