woman-hater
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of woman-hater
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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And her brand of sexual politics encountered hostility from critics like Pauline Kael, Molly Haskell and Ellen Willis, who called Ms. Wertmüller “a woman-hater who pretends to be a feminist.”
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021
The hero need not be a woman-hater, though Richard III is one.
From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2016
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 "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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He was a fairly decent boy, as boys of his type go, and he said nothing worse about Sanders than that he was a woman-hater.
From Sanders of the River by Wallace, Edgar
What if she sent a tender billet to the young woman-hater, and said, ‘Come and love me, if you have the heart and courage of a man.’
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various
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