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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

It would be more of a problem if I were unreasonably antipathetic toward, say, obeying traffic laws.

From Washington Post ● May 1, 2022

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

Like Lear, the role she came out of retirement to play in London two years ago, Jackson seems to have grown antipathetic to the finery that conceals the truth of unaccommodated man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2018

The old Dynasty was profoundly antipathetic to the majority of the country.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville




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