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hated

/ˈheɪtɪd/ adjective A2
  1. Disliked; odious; reviled. · bitterly hated· much-hated
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Hated, as their age increases,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 9 · C1
Then he stretched out his arms, and yawned in the face of the Council; but he was furious with rage and sorrow, for, wolflike, the wolves had never told him how they hated him.
The Jungle Book, p. 25 · B2
But Matthew so rarely went from home that it must be something pressing and unusual which was taking him; he was the shyest man alive and hated to have to go among strangers or to any place where he might have to talk.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 2 · C1
“I assure you I did”--still with the sarcastic inflection which all the children, and Anne especially, hated.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 118 · C1

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