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HATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treated with dislike or contempt
Synonyms:
despised; detested; hated; scorned
Classified under:
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb hate
Context examples:
This favourite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Admiral hated marriage, and thought it never pardonable in a young man of independent fortune.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Marianne, who had seen him from the window, and who hated company of any kind, left the room before he entered it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I assure you I was quite of the squire's way of thinking, and hated the captain deeply.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She hated herself more than she could express.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I thought you hated to be tied to a woman's apron string? retorted Jo, quoting certain rebellious words of his own.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I should say he is about the best-hated man in London.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He would rather walk with me in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to be conspicuous.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Spitz ran out his tongue and laughed again, and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
