hateful
pronunciation
How to pronounce hateful in British English:
UK [ˈheɪtfl]
How to pronounce hateful in American English:
US [ˈhetfəl]
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- Adjective:
- evoking or deserving hatred
- characterized by malice
Word Origin
- hateful (adj.)
- mid-14c., "full of hate;" late 14c., "exciting hate;" from hate (n.) + -ful. Related: Hatefully; hatefulness.
Example
- 1. Rhetoric on all sides is heated , if not hateful .
- 2. He would have judged her an angry woman on the trail of something hateful .
- 3. Better to pursue multi-ethnic harmony within stalin 's hateful legacy than to redraw the map .
- 4. His parents are dead and aaron lives with hosi , his hateful stepfather , and his thuggish stepbrothers .
- 5. I can 't help but feel that there is something disturbing about the idea of people getting off on hateful , misogynistic or cruel stuff .