Definition of Hateful

Hateful

Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.

Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious.

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Hateful Quotations

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The self is hateful.
Blaise Pascal

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
Sophocles

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
Oriana Fallaci

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Grover Cleveland

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.
Kerry King

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
Homer

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.
Rosie O'Donnell

That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
Josh Silver

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
Neil LaBute

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
John Avlon

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
King James I

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.
Richard Griffiths

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
Mike Ferguson

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
Peter Stuyvesant

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
Robert Quine

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
Mojo Nixon

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Jack Steinberger

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
Laura Schlessinger

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
Mark Oliphant

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Hateful Translations

hateful in Italian is odiabile, odioso
hateful in Latin is invisus
hateful in Spanish is odioso

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