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antipathy

[an-tip-uh-thee] / ænˈtɪp ə θi /


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Worse were Hong’s attempts to confront her apparent antipathy toward holidays including Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Fourth of July and even Halloween that appeared on her unscrubbed X account.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Your antipathy to the future of the show is loud and clear.”

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

At the outset, he shared the university scientist’s traditional antipathy to the patent process, so redolent of commercialism and so distinctly unacademic.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Last week, I wrote about what I call unreasonable antipathies.

From Washington Post ● May 8, 2022

Put aside the irony of a charge of anti-Semitism hurled against a writer for whom anti-Semitism was one of his most visceral antipathies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2021

Americans like to think about how Pearl Harbor came and we as a country put our antipathies and hatreds aside for a moment to cooperate in defeating Hitler and Mussolini.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2020

We wish you the best in your affections and antipathies.

From Fox News ● Dec. 9, 2019

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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