Funny and Hateful

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Funny adjective - Causing or intended to cause laughter.

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Hateful and funny are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hateful" instead an adjective "Funny".

Nearby Words: funning, funnily

Hateful adjective - Having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it.

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Funny and hateful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Funny" instead an adjective "Hateful".

Nearby Words: hate, hated, hatefully, hater

As Roger Ebert put it in his review, "in a comedy the villain is supposed to be funny, and not a hateful, sadistic, egotistical monster".

Source: Film / Wedding Crashers
Faux Affably Evil: Masque is so eloquent, melodramatic, and occasionally downright funny its easy to forget that he's a completely unsympathetic, hateful bastard.

Source: Fan Fic / Pokémon: Storm Clouds
Hence the depressingly large number of people who think that being a cyberbully is funny, and that the Internet is the perfect place to spew all the bigoted, hypocritical, provocative, or otherwise hateful bile they would never say in real life.

Source: G.I.F.T.

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