| 单词 | hateful |
| 释义 | hate·ful 1. < talk of an outbreak of the Sioux who were surly and hateful — Bruce Siberts > 2. a. < opinions hateful to the majority — M.R.Cohen > < avoid that hateful backslapping heartiness — R.B.McKerrow > b. < hateful to be without a garden — Gladys B. Stern > Synonyms: < the hateful old cat … who spits venom in her every sentence — C.B.Tinker > < the war to him was a hateful thing, stupid and unjust, waged for the extension of the obscene system of negro slavery — V.L.Parrington > abhorrent may characterize that which arouses hatred blended with feelings of horror or outrage < to Greek thought the indefinite or limitless was as the monstrous and unformed, and therefore abhorrent to the classic ideals of perfection — H.O.Taylor > < they themselves consider sorcery as an abhorrent crime — W.J.Wallace & Edith S. Taylor > obnoxious describes what is objectionable or extremely repulsive < when mosquitoes grew obnoxious we packed up our dishes and went to the house — Della Lutes > < an opportunity to hang around the house and smoke too many cigars and aggravate his poor, patient wife, and exasperate his children, and make himself generally obnoxious to all — Simeon Ford > < resentment against the Stamp Act reached a climax … His Majesty's Ship Diligence was prevented from landing the obnoxious stamps — American Guide Series: North Carolina > invidious describes that which excites ill will, resentment, or hatred, and is likely to rankle < bowed with an invidious curtness and insolently walked off the stage — Edmund Wilson > < the invidious task of improving other people's utterance — J.M.Barzun > < rogues, by which perhaps rather invidious name I designate persons who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves — G.B.Shaw > repugnant applies to what is resisted, disliked, and shunned as incompatible with one's principles or tastes < soon the pressures of male eyes, eyes expressing sex, the curious lamplike luminosity, became repugnant to her — Peggy Bennett > < the internationalism of the socialist found any barriers of race or nationality repugnant — Oscar Handlin > < the nonlegal methods of the magistrates in dispensing judgment, so repugnant to the spirit of the common law — V.L.Parrington > repellent, close to repugnant, may apply to what is shunned as offensive to personal tastes and inclinations < as repellent in form and abstract in substance as many of the German writers on aesthetics of the nineteenth century — Irving Babbitt > < as a cardinal's nephew he was accustomed to many and repellent smiles upon inimical lips — Elinor Wylie > distasteful, a somewhat less forceful term, applies to what one dislikes, usually for strongly personal reasons < don't like my letters shown about as curiosities: it is most distasteful to me — Oscar Wilde > < developed a keen interest in the purely scientific aspects of medicine, the more practical phases of a practitioner's routine being distasteful to him — J.F.Fulton > < plans to refurnish the bedrooms with her own personal belongings, since she finds it distasteful to think of using the personal belongings of its previous occupants — Kenneth Roberts > |
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