Behated

[Mark Mandel]

Is it ever used except in jocular contrast to "beloved"?

m a m

On Jan 23, 2008 8:16 AM, Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:

> A visitor to the Double-Tongued Dictionary points out two uses of
> "behated" in the New York Times. I also see many contemporary uses
> elsewhere, many of them as a showy antonym to "beloved." OED has
> "behate" v. marked as obsolete.
>
> "It Takes a Tough Man to Tell a Bad Joke," by Kelefa Sanneh, June 24,
> 2007
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/arts/music/24sann.html
>
> Then came 9/11 and ''Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry
> American),'' the rallying cry that turned a popular country singer
> into one who was absolutely beloved -- and, among many noncountry
> fans, behated.
>
> "State of the Art: Purging Bloat to Fashion Sleek Software," by David
> Pogue, January 18, 2007
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/technology/18pogue.html
>
> In the beloved/behated slide-show program PowerPoint, in contrast,
> there's not much new apart from the Office-wide improvements.
>
> Grant Barrett
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