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antipathetic

[an-ti-puh-thet-ik, an-tahy-] / ˌæn tɪ pəˈθɛt ɪk, ænˌtaɪ- /


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Ericka at first takes only a nominally enthusiastic attitude toward vying for the crown, and she’s not particularly antipathetic to Paulina either—at least until she witnesses Paulina’s cruel and domineering behavior toward her fellow students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Not only is her singing raucous but her characterization is off-putting, even antipathetic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

Can people who make calculated use of the charge to manipulate other people's fears, genuinely feel threatened by anti-Semitism, or wholly antipathetic to it?

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2021

“I had never seen Jefferson Davis so as to know him. There are probably few men more antipathetic in all their views, opinions, convictions, purposes than he and I,” Greeley said later.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2020

She had had the microscopic eye—nothing could blind her to facts—and her starts and shrinkings had made her antipathetic to most of the persons with whom she had come in contact.

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee


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