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to dislike strongly
she hates her job, she hates her friends, and she hates her life!
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Recent Examples of hated
Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Kiffin left Ole Miss days before the program's first-ever College Football Playoff appearance, which immediately took him from being a man who many believed deserved a statue in Oxford to leaping Tommy Tuberville as the most hated man in the history of the Rebels' football program.
—Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
This is no longer a hated stock.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
And mercenary pros could Benedict Arnold their former college teams by playing for a hated rival.
—Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2026
There may be a rough consensus on opposing the hated government back home, but far less consensus on what should be done — or how to achieve change.
—Michael Paarlberg, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
The Cowboys get one over on the hated Steelers.
—R.j. Coyle, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
Chicago had just beaten the Green Bay Packers, its hated rival, in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs — the Bears’ first playoff win in 15 years.
—Tim Rohan, NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026
When the school’s athletic director winds up dead after a heated confrontation with Peyton, the campus gleefully blames the most hated woman in college basketball.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
In the fourth quarter with the game on the line, Blair called a loose-ball foul on the Cavs and Atkinson hated the call, but rather than scream or dart toward the official, Atkinson just sort of stood near his bench, staring at Blair and shaking his head.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Any pivot toward diplomacy that includes sanctions relief — whether proposed in Washington or Berlin — ignores the fundamental Machiavellian truth that a regime hated by its own people cannot be saved by its external fortresses, but it can be artificially sustained by foreign gold.
—Liram Koblentz-Stenzler, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
Just a pathetic, sad old man who hated the world and spent his days in solitude.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
And the residents the commission represented largely hated the idea of a data center, and let that be known with signs and impassioned pleas during the public comments.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 6 May 2026
Moore hated White’s book Stuart Little, in which a mouse is born to a human woman, and which ends abruptly and ambiguously, with the little mouse’s future very much up to the reader.
—Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
Republicans, meanwhile, hated everything that Democrats loved about Obama and often tilted into grotesque smears.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Show more Pahlavi is the son of Iran’s former shah, who was so widely hated that millions took to the streets in 1979 to force him from power.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
About a quarter of the British Army troops, meanwhile, were actually German—the hated Hessians.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Kiffin left Ole Miss days before the program's first-ever College Football Playoff appearance, which immediately took him from being a man who many believed deserved a statue in Oxford to leaping Tommy Tuberville as the most hated man in the history of the Rebels' football program.
—Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
This is no longer a hated stock.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
And mercenary pros could Benedict Arnold their former college teams by playing for a hated rival.
—Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2026
There may be a rough consensus on opposing the hated government back home, but far less consensus on what should be done — or how to achieve change.
—Michael Paarlberg, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
The Cowboys get one over on the hated Steelers.
—R.j. Coyle, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
Chicago had just beaten the Green Bay Packers, its hated rival, in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs — the Bears’ first playoff win in 15 years.
—Tim Rohan, NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026
When the school’s athletic director winds up dead after a heated confrontation with Peyton, the campus gleefully blames the most hated woman in college basketball.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
Dude on the left hated himself.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
In the fourth quarter with the game on the line, Blair called a loose-ball foul on the Cavs and Atkinson hated the call, but rather than scream or dart toward the official, Atkinson just sort of stood near his bench, staring at Blair and shaking his head.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Any pivot toward diplomacy that includes sanctions relief — whether proposed in Washington or Berlin — ignores the fundamental Machiavellian truth that a regime hated by its own people cannot be saved by its external fortresses, but it can be artificially sustained by foreign gold.
—Liram Koblentz-Stenzler, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
Just a pathetic, sad old man who hated the world and spent his days in solitude.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
And the residents the commission represented largely hated the idea of a data center, and let that be known with signs and impassioned pleas during the public comments.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 6 May 2026
Moore hated White’s book Stuart Little, in which a mouse is born to a human woman, and which ends abruptly and ambiguously, with the little mouse’s future very much up to the reader.
—Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
Republicans, meanwhile, hated everything that Democrats loved about Obama and often tilted into grotesque smears.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Show more Pahlavi is the son of Iran’s former shah, who was so widely hated that millions took to the streets in 1979 to force him from power.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hated
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The British prime minister is only marginally less disliked by Britons, with his net favorability of minus 48 one of the worst since YouGov started tracking this metric in the 1970s.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
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The 1991 Gulf War was a stunning victory for the United States military, which has colored its assumptions about what conventional war—as opposed to counterinsurgency, a mission unwanted and disliked—should look like.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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The goddess Hera — who despised Heracles — later set the crab in the heavens in the form of the constellation Cancer as a reward for its bravery.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
9 May 2026
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Meanwhile, Larysa was stuck in Belarus, a country allied with Russia that Nataliia despised and had refused to move to, despite her daughter’s many pleas.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Hated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hated. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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