How to Use hateful in a Sentence

hateful

adjective
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  • But there is a way to put an end to — just put a stop to this hateful bill.
    — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The next morning, one of the other guests made some hateful comments about Black people.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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 if hate speech impressions fell, the total number of hateful tweets soared in the weeks after Musk bought Twitter.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In contrast, 39% say the sites should be an open forum, even if speech is hateful or inaccurate.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
  • There’s still an endless barrage of hateful legislation right here in the States.
    — Lz Granderson, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • That sense of unease can be spurred by hateful online comments or simply by going to the grocery store.
    — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Victims of hateful bombers who would not be caught for decades because they were not really pursued for decades.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Videos of her report were met with hateful comments calling her an actress.
    — Brian Stelter, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Other viewers aren't so fond of the change and have voiced their disapproval through hateful commentary.
    — Jennifer Vassel, Parents, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Three out of four of the social media platforms began pushing hateful suggestions, the study found.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In the meantime, Strauss was deluged with hateful emails, prompting USC to have a team review the messages for security threats.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • James says that since Jones spoke about his prank, his Twitter DMs have been flooded with hateful and threatening messages.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
  • That doesn’t mean there is nothing universities can do about hateful speech.
    — David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The vow came amid a spate of violent and hateful incidents targeting Jews and people of Arab heritage against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war.
    — NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • That sentiment would be echoed in the hateful and rude treatment, Winfrey said, that has followed her throughout her career.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The facts An influx of migrants into New York began in spring 2022 and has divided people in the city, prompting hateful talk online.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Soon after the announcement was shared on social media, Bertinelli posted a screenshot of a hateful comment on the post.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 22 Feb. 2023
  • With their newfound fame, Wu has been confronted on social media by hateful trolls.
    — Variety, NBC News, 20 July 2023
  • Or will this person be permanently scarred and unable to function in a slightly less atavistic and hateful world?
    — Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
  • Fitch said the act did not reflect the views of the majority of Redmond’s residents, who sent emails, letters and flowers after news broke about the hateful message.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • This aunt is now elderly and ailing, but apparently this aunt was very hateful to her mother, so my half sister has cut her off for the past 14 years.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The three pages showed Hale's plans to murder as many people as possible, and the pages were covered in hateful references and expressions of a desire to kill white people.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2023

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