How to Use antipathy in a Sentence

antipathy

noun
  • The same president who evokes such deep affection from you and your friends evokes equally deep antipathy from others.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
  • But our stories are so often lost because of active antipathy or passive neglect.
    Michelle Tea, Harper's magazine, 22 June 2019
  • That antipathy has inevitably become more nuanced, or at least subdivided, as tech ranks fill up with many in this same cohort.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
  • This may sound laudable, and in keeping with Ms. Warren’s antipathy for plutocrats.
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
  • Most media coverage of the president gives the impression that black antipathy is universal, but that’s a left-wing fantasy.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • Meanwhile, stewing in antipathy, resentment, and self-pity, Remainers plot to rejoin.
    Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Public health group Wellcome is out with a wide-ranging report finding that some regions of the world have deeply concerning ambivalence, and even antipathy, toward vaccines.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 19 June 2019
  • But even officials who share that antipathy say this is not the time to get rid of the agency.
    Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • In an era of deep antipathy toward the media, that’s no small thing.
    Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Her antipathy toward politicians, though, will not keep her from the polls.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2020
  • While Biden has toned down the rhetoric, some elements of this Trump-era antipathy persist.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 1 July 2021
  • In fact Jackson had a lifelong antipathy to that class, which had run the country since its founding.
    John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Your daughter-in-law's antipathy to you has withstood the test of time, as has your child's acquiescence to it.
    Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • And Blanc turns out to have a powerful antipathy toward the classic board game Clue.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Will anyone even go to the show, given the general antipathy for the brand and fears of a backlash against being seen to support it?
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • And this could translate into more antipathy toward the out-group and its leader.
    Wired, 9 Nov. 2019
  • What enabled the ultrawealthy to flourish in the face of such widespread antipathy?
    David Marchesephotograph By Christopher Anderson/magnum, For The New York Times, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Prince Philip misread the public antipathy to the royal family in the days after Diana’s death in a car crash in 1997.
    Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • His antipathy towards and connection to Blanche charges up the entire evening.
    David Benedict, Variety, 15 Jan. 2023
  • But Baker quickly won him over, convincing Abtey of her love for France and her antipathy toward the Nazis.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2022
  • Nevertheless, the film should have probed more deeply the reasons for the rabid antipathy toward Soros.
    Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Austin Bayliss, 32, sees worrying signs that antipathy to Trump may not be enough to carry Democrats to victory.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The break from tradition was a remarkable reflection of the antipathy between the two men.
    Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • For the elite left, opposition to gun rights is in part a cultural statement of antipathy to red-state values.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • But our dislike and distrust of the other team — known as out-party antipathy — is growing, Krosnick says.
    Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2020
  • A lot of the media angst this weekend was undoubtedly driven by antipathy for SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Women were struck with batons, tear-gassed, arrested, and imprisoned even then, but the antipathy from men wasn’t so charged.
    Mira Sethi, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Clearly the attempt is to balance the arguments, or at least to balance our antipathy toward them.
    New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • German fans have an antipathy to foreign investment, unlike, say, Newcastle United fans who donned makeshift Arabic dress when the club was taken over by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
    David Hellier, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2024
  • For Hamas, the task was to garner attention, sympathy and universal antipathy toward Israel.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024

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