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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

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

Or take Thomas Browne, who dismissed the garlic/magnet antipathy as ‘certainly false’ in 1646.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Mine are unreasonable antipathies, but are they inexplicable ones?

From Washington Post May 1, 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

We wish you the best in your affections and antipathies.

From Fox News Dec. 9, 2019

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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