How to Use hateful in a Sentence

hateful

adjective
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  • But as anti-trans bills flooded their state, hateful rhetoric heated up.
    — Kate Sosin, Them, 21 Oct. 2024
  • What has been most upsetting to me is the casual nature in which people are saying hateful things.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Facebook pointed to its rules and policies that prohibit hateful content.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • Such sites allow the spread of hateful conspiracy theories and rhetoric about members of marginalized groups.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 27 May 2022
  • Last year, Kraft organized a meeting of sports commissioners from nearly ever league to try and address the hateful dialogue taking place.
    — Jessica Golden, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The most stark reveal: alarming reports of child exploitation content, yet a significant decline in actions taken against hateful content.
    — Anisha Sircar, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • False, very serious and criminal allegations were levied at me via the media, which triggered an endless barrage of hateful content, although no charges were ever brought against me.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 1 June 2022
  • As such, there’s no guarantee Imagen won’t have embedded these biases and also produce pornographic or hateful images.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 May 2022
  • Replacement theory rubs shoulders with other pseudoscience and disproven racist and hateful tropes that haven’t been embraced by mainstream conservative pundits.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But even with all the hateful rhetoric and razor wire, Alithia Haven Ramírez nurtured a little-girl dream of attending art school in Paris.
    — Palabra, al, 7 June 2022

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