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antipathy

[an-tip-uh-thee] / ænˈtɪp ə θi /


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Although, for his critics, his reputation was dented by his philosophical antipathy to regulation, and two great market crashes.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

The mayoral hopeful didn’t articulate a platform that radically departed from Bass’, and voter antipathy to her muddled messaging showed: she ended the night in third place.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

"Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you," Bilton wrote in a termination letter late Tuesday, according to CBS News.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Mr. Özdemir tempers the Greens’ typical antipathy toward the internal combustion engine—important for a hub of auto manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

All he has done is isolate the question of garlic and magnets from the larger context in which it was normally placed, that of sympathy and antipathy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The unfailingly good-natured Bombay tried to play peacemaker, but Burton and Speke clashed often, piling up resentments and mutual antipathies that would never be fully resolved.

From Washington Post May 27, 2022

We wish you the best in your affections and antipathies.

From Fox News Dec. 9, 2019

One widely reproduced entry lists, in two vertical columns, Morton’s enthusiasms and antipathies.

From New York Times Aug. 29, 2018

By the time of Brooks’s attack on Sumner, sectional antipathies had almost killed the Second Party System.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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