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antipathy
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    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.  (source)
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    It was the sense of his helplessness that sharpened his antipathy.  (source)
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    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.  (source)
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    Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury,  (source)
    Antipathy = strong dislike
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    Of course, his lordship and his colleagues were concerned to brief each other as accurately as possible on each one of the expected participants; but overwhelmingly, their concerns centred one single figure — that of M. Dupont, the French gentleman — and on his likely sympathies and antipathies.†  (source)
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    Traynor's anxiety that I shouldn't leave Will alone for very long, his antipathy to having me there, the fact that for large stretches of time I didn't feel like I was doing anything useful at all.†  (source)
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    Then, too, he had read several books and made the acquaintance of several great misanthropes of the ages, whose spiritual company soothed him and provided him with yardsticks for measuring his whims, his yearnings, and his antipathies.†  (source)
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    Edgar must shake off his antipathy, and tolerate him, at least.†  (source)
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    The Antipathies, I think—' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.†  (source)
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    Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the beginning of my misfortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy.†  (source)
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    One must put aside antipathies and jealousies and not interrupt.†  (source)
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    I see something there I rarely see—frustration, antipathy.†  (source)
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    Giving herself these feminine cares in the brightness of her suite in the soft-blown-open summer beauty, she was not satisfied without social digging and the toil of grievances and antipathies.†  (source)
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