HATEFUL in a Sentence

Learn HATEFUL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
258 example sentences for HATEFUL, such as:
1. I'd hate anything to happen to him.
2. Everybody's been hateful about them.
3. He was going to be as hateful as ever.
4. All thinking people must hate violence.
5. She was a woman who hated to admit defeat.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HATEFUL
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Everybody's been hateful about them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  He was going to be as hateful as ever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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)
1  And it appears that in many cases, being a hateful bigot is a boost to your chances of being elected.
2  A hateful person is one that arouses feelings of hatred in you.
3  He hated his mother's way of alluding to Jean but never actually saying her name.
4  She was a woman who hated to admit defeat.
5  Although she hated him, she put on a show of politeness.
6  He hated his stepfather and eventually ran away from home.
7  I hated the organization and all it stood for.
8  This precept is the only way I know in the world of being loved without being despised, and feared without being hated.
9  Jeremy hated his neighbor's unkempt lawn: he thought its neglected appearance had a detrimental effect on neighborhood property values.
10  As a child, Pip had thought it would be wonderful to work as Joe's apprentice; now he hated his apprenticeship and scorned the blacksmith's trade.
11  Although Bill knew the boss hated jokes, he couldn't resist making one jocular remark.
12  Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love.
13  I'd hate anything to happen to him.
14  I hate to be blunt, Frankie, but she just didn't strike me as being very ladylike.
15  All thinking people must hate violence.