woman-hater
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of woman-hater
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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The term comes from a Jacobean play, “Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women,” produced at London’s Red Bull Theatre in 1618.
From Los Angeles Times
In one, an anonymously written feminist play called “Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned By Women,” the character standing in for Swetnam was named Misogynos.
From New York Times
Trump, a woman-hater to his bones, really leaned into the accusation that free women are a pack of baby-killers:
From Salon
I could tell Marco was a woman-hater, because in spite of all the models and TV starlets in the room that night he paid attention to nobody but me.
From Literature
“Ewan McGregor was basically trying to position me as a great woman-hater. So, I decided to just take a look at his own record in this area, and load of interviews he gave about his great friend Roman Polanski, what a fine man he was, how sorry he was that he had to go to prison, blah, blah, blah and I’m like, ‘Really?’
From The Guardian
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