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noun

antipathy

a deep-seated feeling of strong aversion or dislike

In a sentence

Six example sentences with antipathy, each labelled with its topic.

  • Long antipathy between the two councils meant the shared bus route took nine years and four consultations to agree.

    Politics

  • The novel opens with the sisters' antipathy on full display, one refusing to sit at the other's table.

    Literature

  • His antipathy toward debt was so complete that he bought the delivery van outright rather than lease it.

    Finance

  • The antipathy between the two crosstown teams runs so deep that even their preseason scrimmage sold out in an hour.

    Basketball

  • Plato's antipathy toward poets led him to bar them from his ideal city, trusting reasoned argument over stirring verse.

    Philosophy

  • Antipathy between two rival camps of boys faded fastest when the researchers gave both groups one problem they had to solve together.

    Psychology

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