HATEFUL in a Sentence

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He had proceeded with wisdom and from the most righteous motives under heaven's blue only to be frustrated by hateful circumstances.

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 Meanings and Examples of HATEFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hateful
 a.  characterized by malice
 a.  evoking or deserving hatred
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She don't go around being cold and hateful when she's mad--she tells you about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  But, if you went on too long, you got to be an old maid like India Wilkes and everyone said "poor thing" in that smug hateful way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  She wished she were dead, this very minute, then everyone would be sorry they had been so hateful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Scarlett could endure seeing her own possessions going out of the house in hateful alien hands but not this--not her little boy's pride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  I still think you were hateful that night and I never expect to forgive you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Everybody's been hateful about them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  It was the most hated and hateful of all songs, the song about Sherman's men "Marching through Georgia" and Rhett Butler was singing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  He was going to be as hateful as ever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
9  The consciousness increased her irritation against Rosedale, but also her feeling that now, if ever, was the moment to propitiate him, hateful as it was to do so in Selden's presence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
10  It should go like a black, hateful nightmare, and in the morning he would be a new man.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  If it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways; for I believe him to have been a much worse man after his conversion than before.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  He had proceeded with wisdom and from the most righteous motives under heaven's blue only to be frustrated by hateful circumstances.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
14  I did not participate in these feelings, for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hateful.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  My first resolution was to quit Geneva forever; my country, which, when I was happy and beloved, was dear to me, now, in my adversity, became hateful.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  I hate to see things done by halves-- If it be right, do it boldly, --if it be wrong, leave it undone.
17  The media has waged a virulent hate campaign against her.
18  It's the kind of movie you either love or hate.
19  I hate journeys where you've got a lot of changes, especially if you're carrying luggage.
20  Love, joy, hate, fear and jealousy are all emotions.
21  Love, hate, joy, fear and grief are emotions.
22  The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
23  For all pain helps to make us rise, however much we may hate it at the time.
24  I hate to interject a note of realism, but we don't have any money to do any of this.
25  He that fears you present, will hate you absent.
26  I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
27  Love it or hate it, reality TV is here to stay.
28  I really hate you do not really love me.
29  I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school.
30  I hate to see you unhappy.