antipathy

He was motivated to act so swiftly not by his passion for Martinez’s candidacy but because of his antipathy toward Myers.
Politics Report: The New COVID Calm|Scott Lewis|August 7, 2021|Voice of San Diego
It may very well be that she was not well known enough to have generated that much antipathy but it’s a just beautiful to cast that as her failure.
Politics Report: Why the Recall Failed|Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts|June 5, 2021|Voice of San Diego
Health officials in these places said they had not expected such anti-vaccine antipathy.
U.S. sees significant drop in vaccinations over past week|Dan Keating, Fenit Nirappil, Isaac Stanley-Becker|April 22, 2021|Washington Post
Prince Philip misread the public antipathy to the royal family in the days after Diana’s death in a car crash in 1997.
Prince Philip, royal consort to Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 99|Adrian Higgins|April 9, 2021|Washington Post

Polls have shown voters for decades have harbored antipathy toward Congress as a body, but support their own representative.
Think the System Is Broken? You’re Not Alone|Philip Elliott|March 31, 2021|Time
But what they do have in common, I think, is being told what to do: their antipathy to that.
After 30 Years of Growth, the Cowboy Poetry Festival Tries to Keep Its Pioneer Spirit|John L. Smith|February 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the Democratic side of the ledger antipathy towards free trade is presumed and, by now, historic.
Obama Wants to Fight Income Inequality…With More Free Trade?|Lloyd Green|January 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A little while ago I asked a Texas conservative I know to unpack the antipathy aroused by Cruz.
Why Does Ted Cruz Inspire Such Animosity?|David Frum|May 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He cannot disguise his longstanding antipathy toward the British.
Rupert Murdoch Bares Media’s Reach to Leveson Inquiry on Phone Hacking|Nicholas Wapshott|April 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The antipathy toward America in the Middle East continues even after the architects of the Iraq war have exited the stage.
Ten Iraq War Legacies|The Daily Beast|August 31, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Houses innumerable had been built for it on deck, but the sagacious animal had a rooted antipathy to restraint.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne
He did not appear to notice the half-outstretched hand, and Dick felt as though there was an instinctive antipathy between them.
The Everlasting Arms|Joseph Hocking
In the new Parliament that antipathy amounted almost to a mania.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
From this you can conclude that if you are antipathetic to me, this antipathy proceeds fundamentally from myself.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
National antipathy operated on some minds, religious antipathy on others.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay

British Dictionary definitions for antipathy

antipathy

/ (ænˈtɪpəθɪ) /

noun plural -thies

a feeling of intense aversion, dislike, or hostility

the object of such a feeling

Word Origin for antipathy

C17: from Latin antipathia, from Greek antipatheia, from anti- + patheia feeling

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