woman-hater

American  

[woom-uhn-hay-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

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Example Sentences

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woman-hater

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

Jaques now figures as Marcellus, ‘a sullen, morose lord, a great woman-hater, but at length in love with Julia’—the Julia being, of course, Celia.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by William Davenport Adams

At first he had believed himself, with youthful resentment, a woman-hater and more latterly he had become in this, as in other affairs, an expedientist.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

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