Meaning & use

hatemonger

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A person who stirs up or spreads hatred, especially against a particular group.

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The community rallied against the hatemonger's inflammatory rhetoric.

Social media platforms have struggled to limit the reach of hatemongers.

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Formed like "warmonger" and "fearmonger," the suffix "-monger" originally meant a trader or dealer, later extended to someone who spreads something undesirable.

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