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    antipathy


    1. Despite his rising antipathy for the lure of the press pack he couldn’t think of anything else to do but buy a paper in the hospital shop and now he is sitting in the canteen nursing another cup of coffee


    2. The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea ; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce


    3. “Actually it’s a mutual, uh, antipathy


    4. It is a comfort zone from which to register antipathy toward current national policy both at home and in foreign counties at a time of war and to the detriment of our troops


    5. Because of his antipathy to “nepotism” but knowing the spread-out territory I would be required to cover, he reluctantly came to the realization that I would need a company car


    6. positing the relationship is either antipathy or allegiance rather than any substantive


    7. By much antipathy that my presence will inspire him, I was sure that would continue at the foot of the letter the indications of his father


    8. From day one there was an antipathy between Marie and little Rory (in spite of his strong resemblance to his late Grandfather) and even as the boy grew older, he and his Grandmother could not see eye-to-eye, this situation seemed to worsen after the death of his father Christopher, who had died after being bitten by a Black Widow Spider in his bedroom! – a strange death indeed!


    9. Such a feminist as Laplante seemed to be would no doubt share Sarah’s antipathy for all these stone age-thinking male fossils


    10. The author felt a violent antipathy to the mother, who hadn't devoted wholeheartedly into the cultivation

    11. ’’ Replied Ingrid, who had detected from the start the hidden antipathy and skepticism of Turner towards her


    12. Unfortunately, the Northern Alliance’s ban on the exportation of high technology items to the Southern Federation, along with the barely hidden suspicion and antipathy shown by most of the so-called neutral states on Earth, had made impossible the acquisition of key radar and electronic components that could not be produced these days within the Southern Federation


    13. On her part the Queen stiffened at his appearance and Nancy could feel at once the antipathy between her and the newcomer


    14. bear on publications that do not toe the party line, ‘… antipathy


    15. Social antipathy is a mutual anger, a hatred of being thwarted


    16. ' collective antipathy, can be fadpeded in their response


    17. Richard nursed a strong antipathy towards friars


    18. He is discouraged by the antipathy of the


    19. Caged, his antipathy only grew stronger, filling in short time the recesses meant for love


    20. Tensor tension can be also characterized as antipathy dynamics of mutual antagonism or mutual repulsion that appear between two or several “personalities”

    21. These destructive ‘true’ and ‘right’ belief systems are then compounded and intensified by thoughts of exclusiveness and thus quickly develop into attitudes, feelings and behaviours that are characterized by hate, fanaticism, fear and anger, which are the antithesis and antipathy of compassion, acceptance and unconditional love


    22. everlasting antipathy between their divisions


    23. Let me be generous in saying that with the best feeling toward all, and antipathy toward none, this indictment is written


    24. The later Rabbi give the same account of the Sadducean opinion; which is indeed a logical result from their general mode of regarding the Law, and a natural reaction by antipathy against the indefensible tenets of the Pharisees


    25. We know now, the natural antipathy you strove against, and conquered, for her dear sake


    26. When it was fine they wheeled her arm-chair to the window that overlooked the square, for she now had an antipathy to the garden, and the blinds on that side were always down


    27. I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine: she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to her


    28. I could scarcely refrain from smiling at this antipathy to the poor fellow; who was a well-made, athletic youth, good-looking in features, and stout and healthy, but attired in garments befitting his daily occupations of working on the farm, and lounging among the moors after rabbits and game


    29. Heathcliff seemed to dislike him ever longer and worse, though he took some trouble to conceal it: he had an antipathy to the sound of his voice, and could not do at all with his sitting in the same room with him many minutes together


    30. She showed a good heart, thenceforth, in avoiding both complaints and expressions of antipathy concerning Heathcliff; and confessed to me her sorrow that she had endeavoured to raise a bad spirit between him and Hareton: indeed, I don't believe she has ever breathed a syllable, in the latter's hearing, against her oppressor since

    31. "But I hope you will not carry your antipathy so far as to deprive me of the pleasure of


    32. And yet it was not because the damp had been excluded from the garden; the earth, black as soot, the thick foliage of the trees betrayed its presence; besides, had natural humidity been wanting, it could have been immediately supplied by artificial means, thanks to a tank of water, sunk in one of the corners of the garden, and upon which were stationed a frog and a toad, who, from antipathy, no doubt, always remained on the two opposite sides of the basin


    33. His gestures, his gait, his grizzled beard, his slightest and most indifferent acts, the very fashion of his garments, were odious in the clergyman's sight; a token implicitly to be relied on, of a deeper antipathy in the breast of the latter than he was willing to acknowledge to himself


    34. In the spiritual world, the old physician and the minister—mutual victims as they have been—may, unawares, have found their earthly stock of hatred and antipathy transmuted into golden love


    35. However, that was not the only reason for Caris’ s antipathy


    36. A man may cry out against sin of policy, but he cannot abhor it, but by virtue of a godly antipathy against it


    37. A round of drinks might dilute their natural antipathy to the point where they’d cough up something useful, a name, a number to call


    38. His antipathy to Will did not spring from the common jealousy of a winter-worn husband: it was something deeper, bred by his lifelong claims and discontents; but Dorothea, now that she was present—Dorothea, as a young wife who herself had shown an offensive capability of criticism, necessarily gave concentration to the uneasiness which had before been vague


    39. His sense of right had surmounted and would continue to surmount anything that might be called antipathy


    40. Farebrother, who was not more surprised than the lawyer that an ugly secret should have come to light about Bulstrode, though he had always had justice enough in him to hinder his antipathy from turning into conclusions

    41. Now the parents were having “light dining” upstairs at Top of the Mark, and Avis was in the kitchenette, looking at me over her shoulder with fierce antipathy


    42. He had no particular antipathy for any of them


    43. He behaved very well in the regiment but was not liked; Rostov especially detested him and was unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man


    44. Besides it was pleasant, after his reception by the Austrians, to speak if not in Russian (for they were speaking French) at least with a Russian who would, he supposed, share the general Russian antipathy to the Austrians which was then particularly strong


    45. In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling


    46. The prince reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt for her


    47. Apart from this insuperable antipathy to her, Princess Mary was agitated just then because on the Rostovs’ being announced, the old prince had shouted that he did not wish to see them, that Princess Mary might do so if she chose, but they were not to be admitted to him


    48. I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine; she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to her


    49. Edgar must shake off his antipathy, and tolerate him, at least


    50. I could scarcely refrain from smiling at this antipathy to the poor fellow; who was a well-made, athletic youth, good-looking in features, and stout and healthy, but attired in garments befitting his daily occupations of working on the farm and lounging among the moors after rabbits and game
















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    Synonyms for "antipathy"

    antipathy aversion distaste discord antithesis contrariety conflict clash repulsion abhorrence hostility dislike antagonism repugnance detestation

    "antipathy" definitions

    a feeling of intense dislike


    the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided