woman-hater

[woom-uhn-hey-ter]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of woman-hater¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

The film starred Jack Nicholson as a lecherous woman-hater and Art Garfunkel as his morally confused friend who lusts after a “good girl” played by Candice Bergen.

From Los Angeles Times

Becoming a bile-spewing woman-hater will not help.

From Salon

He is also a white supremacist, a woman-hater, a confirmed sexual predator, a megalomaniac and various other bad things.

From Salon

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

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