antipathy

Example Sentences

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And as the tribunes who stir up the populace’s antipathy toward Coriolanus, William DeMeritt and Zuzanna Szadkowski are bland, seemingly unwilling to decide whether their characters are nefarious or just mildly meddlesome.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

In any event, his campaign generated unprecedented enthusiasm, driving the largest turnout in a New York City election for 56 years — and also generated intense antipathy.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

Contrary to Meta’s public statements that Wynn-Williams has been “paid by anti-Facebook activists,” she’ll likely make a nice sum from this book via deep antipathy toward the corporation.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2025

That antipathy is partly explained by Macron's vocal condemnation of the July 2023 overthrow of Bazoum, who had been one of his closest African political and security partners.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024

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

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton