woman-hater

American  

[woom-uhn-hey-ter] / ˈwʊm ənˌheɪ tər /

noun

1. a person, especially a man, who dislikes women; misogynist.

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Etymology

Origin of woman-hater

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

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

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

Probably Ikey, who had the reputation of being a woman-hater, did not care for his courtship to be known, for I knew that he did not like being laughed at or joked in any way.

From The Birthright by Hocking, Joseph