antipathy

Born in 1838 in Cologne and educated in Leipzig and Mannheim, young Max Bruch developed a fondness for the lyrical, intimate romanticism of Schumann and Mendelssohn, and an equally powerful antipathy toward Wagnerian maximalism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

Above all, Faure had the confidence to turn his antipathy towards the many- layered complexity of Wagner’s music dramas into a much purer, emotionally restrained sound.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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