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Examples of “antipathy” in a Sentence

3 example sentences showing how to use antipathy, grouped by meaning.

noun A strong feeling of dislike toward a person, or less often a thing, sometimes felt for no clear reason.

  • Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election. — Spencer Ackerman, ‘The FBI is Trumpland’: Anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say (2016)

noun A natural clash between two things that makes them work against each other, or one case of this.

  • Now between Mars and Luna, the one red, t'other white, the one hot, t'other cold and so forth, stands, as I have told you, a natural antipathy, or, as you say, hatred. Which antipathy their creatures do inherit. — Rudyard Kipling, A Doctor of Medicine (1910)
  • Oil and water have antipathy.