How to Use hateful in a Sentence

hateful

adjective
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  • And that is the tale of two pardons — and one hateful man.
    — Lz Granderson, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • But there is a way to put an end to — just put a stop to this hateful bill.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Moss said many of the comments were racist and hateful.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2022
  • Sarcasm and hateful speech have no place in the church.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021
  • There were and still are a lot of hateful people out there that don't want us out and in front of the world—that hasn’t changed.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Those in favor of the local law deny the bill is hateful.
    — Nic F. Anderson, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • The team also called for an end to the hateful messages being sent to Chiles in the wake of the appeal and ruling.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Her response, so far, has been to tune them out, even when the hateful rhetoric escalates.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Nor does the size of an A.I.’s training dataset keep it from spewing hateful content.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Many of the posts Grok selected were hateful, toxic, and even racist.
    — Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 18 July 2024
  • The next morning, one of the other guests made some hateful comments about Black people.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Some observers saw the event as just the latest in a campaign filled with hateful comments.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Suicide rates are so high because of hateful bulls–t like that.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Except that the Dallas Wings moved to Texas in 2016, and that hasn’t stopped that state’s hateful treatment of women.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • Kim Kardashian is feeling the weight of Kanye West’s hateful words.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2023
  • Their court papers cited hateful speech and threats against the justices.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Her mom, Stacey, reads through the comments first and blocks anyone who says something hateful.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Gay said she has been subjected to hateful racist messages and threats.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But this is one more part of a fact pattern of Ron DeSantis being mean and hateful.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 30 July 2023
  • There is a side of de Gaulle that is merely hateful: vindictive and vain and deeply selfish.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Eric said the photo, which was taken from behind and does not show a face, made the person look hateful.
    — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Compared to the truly hateful male drivers that scream at her on the road all day, however, the dude is a pussycat.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Or engage in hateful trolling disguised as free speech?
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • It's never been OK to get hateful comments about your body, but more and more women are taking a stand.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The Fever rookie said that many of the people spewing hatred are parading as fans to push a hateful agenda.
    — Natasha Dye, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • On the witness stand, Moss and Freeman described fearing for their lives as hateful messages poured in.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2023
  • This selfish, hateful behavior has no place in the Mummers, or the city itself.
    — Sahar Akbarzai, CNN, 2 Jan. 2022
  • At the time Roth, tweeted that the safety team took down more than 1,500 accounts for hateful conduct in a three day period.
    — Ana Faguy, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In Howard County, teaching officials have faced hateful lies spread about educational policies leading up to the election.
    — Claire Foley, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Some hateful statements about Jews remain prohibited under the new policy.
    — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025

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