antipathetic

Example Sentences

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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

“I had never seen Jefferson Davis so as to know him. There are probably few men more antipathetic in all their views, opinions, convictions, purposes than he and I,” Greeley said later.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2020

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

It’s curious, though, that even the party that is relatively antipathetic toward business and capitalism describes such efforts using the language of advertising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2015

These are some natures purely contemplative and antipathetic to action, who nevertheless, under a mysterious and inexplicable impulse, sometimes act with a rapidity of which they would have believed themselves incapable.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles