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hatefully

  • a word derived from hateful.
    hateful
    adjective
    arousing hate or deserving to be hated.

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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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton