How to Use hateful in a Sentence

hateful

adjective
  • Suicide rates are so high because of hateful bulls–t like that.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2022
  • And yet, the company internally wrestled with this for nearly two weeks, even as Ye doubled down on his hateful words.
    Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In recent years, hateful tenets of the replacement theory have been invoked in several mass shootings.
    Hayley Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • There are other ways to respond to hateful comments that are more indirect: limiting comments and blocking people.
    Jules Terpak, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • History reveals that censorship of hateful ideas is often a cure that is worse than the disease, deepening social divides.
    Jacob McHangama, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
  • But these Nazis do want to kill Jewish people, and his recent comments helped push their hateful perspective into the mainstream.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The spokesperson did not say which policy was violated but instead sent a link to Twitter’s rules, which include guidelines against hateful conduct.
    Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The push for natural skin love has slowly gained traction, surprising even some real-skin influencers who worried their unfiltered images would run into hateful comments.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • With the calamitous nature of the central romance and an elegant execution, Perry does invoke a sense of longing for what might have been for these fictional lovers in a world less hateful.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The move comes as Ye’s once-thriving business empire has begun to wither due to his repetition of hateful conspiracy theories and antisemitic tropes.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Those in favor of the local law deny the bill is hateful.
    Nic F. Anderson, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gay said she has been subjected to hateful racist messages and threats.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But this is one more part of a fact pattern of Ron DeSantis being mean and hateful.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 30 July 2023
  • Compared to the truly hateful male drivers that scream at her on the road all day, however, the dude is a pussycat.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Or engage in hateful trolling disguised as free speech?
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • On the witness stand, Moss and Freeman described fearing for their lives as hateful messages poured in.
    Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2023
  • At the time Roth, tweeted that the safety team took down more than 1,500 accounts for hateful conduct in a three day period.
    Ana Faguy, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But even if hate speech impressions fell, the total number of hateful tweets soared in the weeks after Musk bought Twitter.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But his takeover of Twitter was followed shortly by an increase in hateful speech.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2022
  • In contrast, 39% say the sites should be an open forum, even if speech is hateful or inaccurate.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
  • There’s still an endless barrage of hateful legislation right here in the States.
    Lz Granderson, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024

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