n.

Intense animosity or hostility.

n

a feeling of intense dislike; enmity

1. Dislike ran round the table like electricity —Penelope Gilliatt
2. Exuded venom like a malicious old lady —Colette
3. The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent —Jean Paul Richter
4. Hate … flowed like electric syrup through her veins —Marge Piercy
5. Hate is ptomaine, good-will is a panacea —Elbert Hubbard
6. Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat —Harry Emerson Fosdick
7. Hatred fills my mouth like spit —Margaret Atwood
8. Hatred is a form of subjective involvement by which one is bound to the hated object —Lao Tzu
9. Hatred like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly —George Elliott
10. Hatreds, like chickens, come home to roost —Joseph Shearing
11. He’ll (a hated individual) be getting into your beer, like prussic acid; and blotting out your eyes, like a cataract; and screaming in your ears, like a brain tumor; and boiling around your heart, like melted lead; and ramping through your guts, like a cancer —Joyce Cary
12. I hate you like all-fire —Truman Capote
13. (Lady Charlotte would swallow back her hot feeling against Cynthia.) It [hate] was like a dark web within her, a fibrous tangle like the roots of plants in too small a pot —M. J. Farrell
14. My hate is like ripe fruit —Marvin Bell
15. The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry —William Hazlitt

    In his essay, The Pleasures of Hating, Hazlitt continues to describe the effects of hatred: “It makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands; it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.”

16. Promiscuous haters get religion as promiscuous lovers get clap —Gerald Kersh
17. Spite may often see as clearly as charity —Lawrence Durrell