Meaning & use

Hateable

adjective·Everyday

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Deserving or provoking hatred; easy to dislike intensely.

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The villain was written to be as hateable as possible.

Critics called the character's smug attitude thoroughly hateable.

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Informal and mostly used in casual reviews or conversation, it serves as the everyday counterpart to "detestable."

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