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antipathy

[an-tip-uh-thee] / ænˈtɪp ə θi /


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Everywhere I turn, I find ambiguity, ambivalence and antipathy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 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

“Your antipathy to the future of the show is loud and clear.”

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

Not death—not even tanning—could undo the antipathy between lamb and wolf.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

The NFL is in danger of stirring more antipathies than sympathies.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2017

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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