Example Sentences

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Sorry, but the underpinning of our free speech culture is that anger, no matter how hatefully or ignorantly expressed, is better diverted into words than violence.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023

“But reeeeaaaalllyyy hit that unfollow button if you’re trying to defame my father and tweet such horrific statements about this tragic situation. It breaks my heart that people are so hatefully ignorant...,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021

A Buddhist priest whose temple was one of several in Los Angeles hatefully vandalized this year.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2021

Logan spends much of the first season behaving hatefully towards Veronica, but by season two they have become an on-again, off-again couple.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2019

If Queen Mab and her train had come down to dance on the brink of hell, the antithesis could not have jarred more hatefully than the night upon his thoughts.

From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn