(n.) To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.
(n.) To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted.
(n.) To love less, relatively.
(v.) Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.
Example Sentences:
(1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(2) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(3) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(4) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(5) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(6) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(7) The US started down this course during the Sony hack last year, and in this case, transparency might be the best deterrent in the future – which, by the way, is something both Snowden and the Snowden-hating national security blog Lawfare argued on Monday.
(8) One tip was that he should not mention he was flying to Germany as "obviously" the environmentalists "hate short-haul flights".
(9) We hate the police, hate the government, got no opportunities ... Manchester was like a bloodbath.
(10) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
(11) "And of course it's the kind of thing that leftwing pressure groups hate.
(12) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
(13) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
(14) All of which would be perfectly normal (after all, if there's anything valencianos love more than blowing off their fingers, it's complaining about their team) but for one thing: it was only just after half past nine and there was still an hour to go against hated rivals Real Madrid.
(15) Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is neither hateful nor pure: it’s complicated | John Harris Read more Their dilemma is plain: if they make a stand against what is happening, they stand accused of disloyalty by Corbyn’s supporters; but if they go along with it, they are complicit in Labour’s probable disintegration when voters realise the party has been taken over by people they can never vote for.
(16) Of course they have… so they must be doing it because they hate you!
(17) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(18) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
(19) At first Shevchenko hated the idea of protesting topless.
(20) It was his story, and lately I have come to hate stories.
Unlove
Definition:
(v. t.) To cease to love; to hate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The station looks unloved and there are many vacant plots of land.
(2) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(3) Photograph: Eamonn McCabe The building was shallow and unlovely, really two knocked together, but it had a broad frontage, and across it in huge letters Hunt spelled out “Foxtons Estate Agents”.
(4) The harbour wall, once home to unloved fishermen's huts, is being developed into a series of galleries and restaurants, all due to open this summer.
(5) It was an unloved idea that garnered support if only because no one could think of a better one.
(6) If universities are the prestigious eldest, and schools the cosseted youngest, then further education (FE) is the unloved middle child of our education system – undervalued and often neglected.
(7) The film-maker has already signalled he will eschew the CGI-generated environments seen in the unloved prequel series of movies in favour of real sets.
(8) Story of cities #13: Barcelona's unloved planner invents science of 'urbanisation' Read more According to several studies, air pollution alone causes 3,500 premature deaths a year in Barcelona’s metropolitan area (with a population of 3.2 million), as well as having severe effects on local ecosystems and agriculture.
(9) But, after decades of dirt-cheap fuels, energy efficiency remains unloved: 10m homes in the UK have unlagged lofts , for example.
(10) Seven years ago white was seriously unloved: fewer than one in 100 new cars got the white paint treatment.
(11) • Akti Toti Hatzi 4, +30 22970 24445 What to do The Temple of Aphaea is on the other side of the island from Aegina Town, not far above the unlovely resort of Agia Marina.
(12) Star Wars droid BB-8 is real and you can take him home Read more The suits at Disney (the parent company that currently owns everything Star Wars and keeps Lucas at a benevolent elder statesman’s distance) have been licking their chops not just about this December’s Episode VII – The Force Awakens , but also all the ancillary products kids will feel strangely hollow, unfulfilled and possibly unloved if they don’t get to own.
(13) This leaves her feeling resentful, guilty, and ultimately unlovable.
(14) A more intelligent or ruthless man, faced with marriage to an unloved woman – a professional womb, ordered in – might have chosen someone cynical; he might have made a bargain.
(15) But often, Lucy admits she feels sad and unloved if there are too many negative comments ( no argument there ).
(16) Batmanghelidjh excelled at bridging that mistrust, preaching her gospel of empathy and emphasising that the consequence of so many unloved children was a distortion of the “emotional economy” of the whole country.
(17) The government must focus on unloved sectors such as hospitality and retail, if it is to tackle Britain’s lamentable productivity record, according to a new analysis by thinktank the Institute for Public Policy Research.
(18) It is six years, after all, since 2009, the year in which the comedian’s blossoming career and reputation took an abrupt and savage hit, thanks to his unloved eponymous sketch show with Gavin & Stacey co-star Mathew Horne (“ puerile and excruciating ”, according to the New Statesman), a critically mauled movie, Lesbian Vampire Killers (“a witless mess”, said the Telegraph), and a calamitous performance hosting the Brit awards with Horne, which even Corden has acknowledged was “shit, because of ego”.
(19) Hague cannot escape the ongoing consequences of the personalisation of the Libyan campaign around the unlovely figure of Gaddafi.
(20) She was rejected by her own parents and brought up by severe and unloving grandparents, who confined her to her room for an entire year just for having gone trick-or-treating without permission.