Example sentences for: hateful

How can you use “hateful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, blackmailing, cowardly, thoroughly dishonest creep.

  • The brittle, shallow, single, gold-digging, thirtysomething protagonist of Janowitz's latest hate letter to Manhattan is pronounced so unpleasant as to make the entire novel (which follows her search for a suitably rich and connected husband) quite a drag: "A hateful heroine and a catalog of conspicuous consuming do not an amusing read make" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). "One of the least likable characters in modern fiction history.

  • The problem with the idea of hate crime, aside from the fact that violent crime is inherently hateful, as you say, is that it doesn't distinguish between deliberate terrorism and acts that may be motivated in whole or in part by bigotry but don't have a purposeful agenda behind them.

  • Or Monica, the inexperienced flirt who blithely tried to blackmail the president of the United States, who in fact was something of a stalker, even if the supposedly hateful Sidney Blumenthal was the one to call her that.

  • We changed back again when the abominable truth was discovered that the word had its own legitimate Latin ancestor, abominosus meaning away from the omens, or hateful and odious.


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