Hateful
['heɪtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['hetfəl]
Definition
(adj.) evoking or deserving hatred; 'no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude'- Joseph Priestly .
(adj.) characterized by malice; 'a hateful thing to do'; 'in a mean mood' .
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Definition
(a.) Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.
(a.) Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Malignant, malevolent.[2]. Abominable, detestable, execrable, horrid, shocking, damnable, accursed.[3]. Loathsome, disgusting, nauseous, offensive, foul, repulsive, obnoxious, revolting, vile, abhorrent, repugnant.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Abominable, detestable, vile, odious, heinous, execrable, loathsome, repulsive
ANT:Lovable, lovely, desirable, delightful, attractive, enticing, enjoyable,tempting, pleasant
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Examples
- Falsehood and artifice are in themselves so hateful, that, though I still thought I did right, a feeling of shame and guilt came painfully upon me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And Birkin seemed to her almost a monster of hateful arrogance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her hope had been to avert the wrath of Heaven from a House that had long been hateful to the suffering many. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The disguise, equivocation, mystery, so hateful to her to practise, might soon be over. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was a hateful fate--but how escape from it? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He had made her feel that her slow French and her slower German, were hateful to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was hateful in mine own eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He told me--he warned me long ago--he foresaw that I should grow hateful to myself! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Everybody is so hateful, I'll ask Laurie to go skating. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I would I were in peace with my aunt and my lovely William, escaped from a world which is hateful to me, and the visages of men which I abhor. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Day, hateful to me, dawned; I retreated to my lodgings--I threw myself on a couch--I slept--was it sleep? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I thought that he was perfectly hateful--and I was sure that Cyril would not wish me to know such a person. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Oh, no; those whom you laid low are lesser therns; but of the same cruel and hateful race. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Why this dreadful all-comprehensiveness, this hateful tyranny? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I have a place to repair to, which will be a secure sanctuary from hateful reminiscences, from unwelcome intrusion--even from falsehood and slander. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We promised to do our best to prevent her hearing a word more on the hateful subject. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And the passionate almost hateful fascination revived in her for a moment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I did not participate in these feelings; for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hateful. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I was hateful in my own eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The world, it seemed, was turning ugly and hateful, and there was no place for her trustfulness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- And so he died, his thin lips curled in the snarl of his hateful laugh, and a bullet from the revolver of his dead companion bursting in his heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He wanted to make me drink some of his hateful brandy, said Emmeline; and I hate it so-- You'd better drink, said Cassy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I should fear even to cross his path now: my view must be hateful to him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Here's more of this hateful soot hanging about, says he. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I assure you it is just as hateful to me to fail in a case as it can be to you to blunder over a commission. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the most hateful sight of all, was the lice crawling on their clothes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It was another of his hateful, watchful characteristics. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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