hateworthyadj.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts x. f. xlii^v I oughte not to esteme any manne..to be vncleane, or hate worthy [L. abominandum], for as muche as god taketh no man to be vncleane.

1617 T. Taylor Davids Learning 151 Grace looketh rather vpon a mans owne sinnes, then anothers, accounting them more..hate-worthy then anothers.

1623 W. Whately Charitable Teares in Care-cloth (1624) 205 The Lord doe allow..vs, to hate the workers of iniquitie (as they well deserue, because they commit hate-worthy actions).

1714 J. Ozell tr. Molière Don Garcia iv. ix. in tr. Molière Wks. V. 188 To what purpose is it to Love..if by Reason of its Transports, which torment me so much, that Love continually render it self hate-worthy [Fr. digne de haine]?

1754 J. Elphinston tr. F. Fénelon Dialogues of Dead I. xvii. 99 I hate them only because I cannot help it, because they are hate-worthy [Fr. haïssables].

1866 A. C. Swinburne Poems & Ballads 34 There is no hate that is so hateworthy.

1876 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 492 The death of a hated and hate-worthy enemy.

1924 Public Opinion 9 May 450/3 There is nothing sinister or hateworthy in Mrs. Carlyle's slowly and deliberately formed judgement.

1950 B. Bettelheim Love Is not Enough ix. 262 In the loneliness of his room, where he is at liberty to point out to himself that others are hateful or hateworthy.

2009 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 May (Features section) Enemies who particularised the business of killing seemed more hateworthy than those who merely participated in indiscriminate mayhem.