hater

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WW Fan, a hater is a person that makes negative comments about something based on personal prejudices.

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  1. One who hates. An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Sir T. Browne. To be a good hater one needs only to be irascible by nature, and to be placed in some relationship of frequent encounter with the authors of offence. A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 139.

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  • "Let her sit it out You're a woman-hater, are you not?" —  028 - The Roar Devil
  • Ironic that Crombie the woman-hater should be the organizing catalyst! —  The Source of Magic
  • The piteous images of the dead and wounded in what has become known as the 'Gaza Strip' are convenient for the Jew-hater or for those who are pathologically disposed to the elimination of Israel. —  Cranmer
  • * Just about every blog run by Musulmaniacs features the useful idiot Ian Buruma who accuses Geert Wilders of being a "hater" - all the while insisting that we have to to muzzle free speech to placate the Islamic invaders —  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
  • My post deals with an America-hater, whereas the original post was obviously posted by a Christian-hater. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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  1. from Middle English hatere (= Dutch hater = Middle High German hazzære, hezzer, German hasser, hässer = Icelandic hatari = Danish hader = Swedish hatare); from hate + -er.
 

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