Sample sentences for ANTIPATHY

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Definition

strong dislike

antipathy = strong dislike

antipathy = strong dislike

The only famous painter of the past for whom I have entertained an antipathy, is Raphael; yet, when I was in Rome and saw the frescos in the Vatican, I was obliged again to ask myself if my attitude was a pose, because they struck me frankly as admirable.
Pío Baroja -- Youth and Egolatry
John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me.
Bronte, Charlotte -- Jane Eyre
Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury,
George Washington -- Washington's Farewell Address

antipathy = strong dislike

It was the sense of his helplessness that sharpened his antipathy.
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome

antipathy = strong dislike

I see something there I rarely see—frustration, antipathy.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

antipathy = strong dislike

In truth, his own antipathy to the veil was known to be so great, that he never willingly passed before a mirror, nor stooped to drink at a still fountain, lest, in its peaceful bosom, he should be affrighted by himself.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil

antipathy = strong dislike

No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave.
William Shakespeare -- King Lear

antipathy = strong dislike

The lawyer and novelist Louis Auchincloss, who very much belongs to the old WASP-y white-shoe legal establishment in New York, has a scene in his book The Scarlet Letters that perfectly captures the antipathy the downtown firms felt toward takeover law.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

antipathy = strong dislike

He rated him as a first-class hand; and yet he felt a secret dislike to him,—the native antipathy of bad to good.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
We know now, the natural antipathy you strove against, and conquered, for her dear sake.
Dickens, Charles -- A Tale Of Two Cities
He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.
London, Jack -- Adventure
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
Besides, there was his old antipathy to being touched.
London, Jack -- White Fang
"But I hope you will not carry your antipathy so far as to deprive me of the pleasure of your company, sir," said Monte Cristo.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
A man who writes the life of Napoleon finds himself either sympathizing with him, or roused into antipathy by him.
Timothy Titcomb -- Lessons in Life
There is one antipathy, however, which I find it hard to overcome.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Malefactor
He, seized already with an instinctive antipathy to Trefusis, said emphatically:
Shaw, George Bernard -- An Unsocial Socialist
Only I have a strange antipathy to the place.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Vanished Messenger

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