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Hatefully

Hateful \Hate"ful\ (-f[.u]l), a.

  1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.

    And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest.
    --Dryden.

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

    Unhappy, wretched, hateful day!
    --Shak.

    Syn: Odious; detestable; abominable; execrable; loathsome; abhorrent; repugnant; malevolent. -- Hate"ful*ly, adv. -- Hate"ful*ness, n.

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hatefully

adv. In a hateful manner.

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hatefully

adv. in a hateful manner

Usage examples of "hatefully".

It was the face of a hatefully happy man, a face that radiated a horrible handsome warmth, a face to make waterglasses shatter in the hands of tired truck-stop waitresses, to make small children crash their trikes into board fences and then run wailing to their mommies with stake-shaped splinters sticking out of their knees.

She looked at him bitterly, almost hatefully, and then to Lucy, as if for support.

Suddenly, nothing mattered but striking back as hatefully as she could.

Then, as if suddenly realizing that the eyes of his wife were hatefully studying his reactions, Bland rallied gamely.

With difficulty, Angela pulled her eyes from their ritual of staring hatefully at the back of the Columbian leader to turn and look at Charlotte.