ˈhātfəl adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from hate (I) + -ful
1. : full of hate : malicious
talk of an outbreak of the Sioux who were surly and hateful — Bruce Siberts
2.
a. : exciting or deserving of hatred : repulsive
opinions hateful to the majority — M.R.Cohen
avoid that hateful backslapping heartiness — R.B.McKerrow
b. : uncongenial , annoying , distasteful
hateful to be without a garden — Gladys B. Stern
Synonyms:
abhorrent , obnoxious , invidious , repugnant , repellent , distasteful : hateful applies to that which arouses hate, which calls forth active hostility
the hateful old cat … who spits venom in her every sentence — C.B.Tinker
the war to him was a hateful thing, stupid and unjust, waged for the extension of the obscene system of negro slavery — V.L.Parrington
abhorrent may characterize that which arouses hatred blended with feelings of horror or outrage
to Greek thought the indefinite or limitless was as the monstrous and unformed, and therefore abhorrent to the classic ideals of perfection — H.O.Taylor
they themselves consider sorcery as an abhorrent crime — W.J.Wallace & Edith S. Taylor
obnoxious describes what is objectionable or extremely repulsive
when mosquitoes grew obnoxious we packed up our dishes and went to the house — Della Lutes
an opportunity to hang around the house and smoke too many cigars and aggravate his poor, patient wife, and exasperate his children, and make himself generally obnoxious to all — Simeon Ford
resentment against the Stamp Act reached a climax … His Majesty's Ship Diligence was prevented from landing the obnoxious stamps — American Guide Series: North Carolina
invidious describes that which excites ill will, resentment, or hatred, and is likely to rankle
bowed with an invidious curtness and insolently walked off the stage — Edmund Wilson
the invidious task of improving other people's utterance — J.M.Barzun
rogues, by which perhaps rather invidious name I designate persons who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves — G.B.Shaw
repugnant applies to what is resisted, disliked, and shunned as incompatible with one's principles or tastes
soon the pressures of male eyes, eyes expressing sex, the curious lamplike luminosity, became repugnant to her — Peggy Bennett
the internationalism of the socialist found any barriers of race or nationality repugnant — Oscar Handlin
the nonlegal methods of the magistrates in dispensing judgment, so repugnant to the spirit of the common law — V.L.Parrington
repellent , close to repugnant , may apply to what is shunned as offensive to personal tastes and inclinations
as repellent in form and abstract in substance as many of the German writers on aesthetics of the nineteenth century — Irving Babbitt
as a cardinal's nephew he was accustomed to many and repellent smiles upon inimical lips — Elinor Wylie
distasteful , a somewhat less forceful term, applies to what one dislikes, usually for strongly personal reasons
don't like my letters shown about as curiosities: it is most distasteful to me — Oscar Wilde
developed a keen interest in the purely scientific aspects of medicine, the more practical phases of a practitioner's routine being distasteful to him — J.F.Fulton
plans to refurnish the bedrooms with her own personal belongings, since she finds it distasteful to think of using the personal belongings of its previous occupants — Kenneth Roberts