How to Use hateful in a Sentence

hateful

adjective
  • 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
  • In the grand scheme of things, the new Space Jam isn’t hateful or inept.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 July 2021
  • 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
  • The best response to hateful speech is to raise your own voice against it, not to ban it.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
  • My words were hurtful and hateful and have no place in this world.
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 5 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • One man said the signs weren't intended to be racist or hateful.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • In the last few months, hateful rhetoric against Chinese people has spiked.
    — Sara Li, Teen Vogue, 27 Feb. 2020
  • In the video, D'Amelio says some of the most hateful comments she's gotten online are aimed at her body, her weight, and her looks.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The platform has itself been called a cesspool, rife with hateful rhetoric and falsehoods.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Day was facing an immense amount of hateful comments and calls for him to be fired.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
  • 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
  • The record shows that myths about the past can be exploited to create hateful policies.
    — Mary Rambaran-Olm and Erik Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
  • 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
  • How can the Star Tribune allow such a hateful letter that didn't make much sense?
    — Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Biden, on the other hand, claimed that Trump was fueling the flames of the violence with his hateful rhetoric.
    — Siraj Hashmi, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Her mom, Stacey, reads through the comments first and blocks anyone who says something hateful.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Underage photos of me were used, and examples of me acting in character were presented as hateful.
    — EW.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Earlier in the year, one fan in Indianapolis was accused of making hateful comments toward Chicago Sky players.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025

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