hater
a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination): I'm a big hater of opera.Are you a dog-hater?
Informal. a person who thrives on showing hate toward, criticizing, or belittling other people or things, usually unfairly: The guy is just a hater, looking for a fight.
Origin of hater
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How to use hater in a sentence
“Haters gonna hate” makes the person who says it into an automatic martyr, persecuted, misunderstood, maligned.
Around my own friends, someone will wind up a conversation with a shrug and a baffling—to me—utterance of “Haters gonna hate.”
In the June 30 Wall Street Journal, Jason Gay seemed to brand the skeptics as Soccer Haters.
Haters back then called it “mosque madness” and “Islamic domination and expansionism.”
Haters Gon Hate: Brad Pitt has finally responded to the backlash against his ads for Chanel No. 5.
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During the revising process "The Woman-Haters" has more than doubled in length and, let us hope, in accuracy.
The Woman-Haters | Joseph C. LincolnA story of mine called, like this, "The Woman-Haters," appeared recently in one of the magazines.
The Woman-Haters | Joseph C. Lincoln
British Dictionary definitions for hater
/ (ˈheɪtə) /
someone who hates a specified person or thing: a passionate hater of tyranny
(in combination): a woman-hater; a cop-hater
informal, mainly US and Canadian a grudging or spiteful person, esp one who disparages others: Don't let the haters get you down
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