How to use "antipathy" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "antipathy" in popular movie and book plots

  • Ormonde, despite his own strong personal antipathy to Stephens, accordingly recommended him to the King as a man who was worth promoting: he met the King at Portsmouth and was given a knighthood.  - Richard Stephens (judge)
  • His next door neighbor has an antipathy to the Kovaks, at least partly because of their nationality, and runs a spiteful campaign against the boy, resulting in confiscation of his compost bins, and other harassment.  - Big Ideas (film)
  • While she is absent, Jacques and Jenny de Fontanin, overcoming their apparent longstanding antipathy to each other, become lovers, and while dining together witness the assassination of the antiwar socialist leader Jean Jaurès by a French nationalist.  - The Thibaults
  • She wrote on his behalf to King William, but the king had conceived such an antipathy to him that he declined to utilise his services on any consideration.  - Sir James Montgomery, 4th Baronet
  • One of the Boov, named Oh (Jim Parsons), is a more excitable, freethinking member of the species, who decides to invite the Boov to his apartment for a housewarming party, despite the race's antipathy towards him.  - Home (2015 film)
  • Buckley's calm and rational disposition eventually degenerates into an obsessiveness that resembles the late Matheson's intense antipathy to paranormal claims.  - Red Lights (2012 film)
  • Rickie, having no personal antipathy towards Paul, comes to the conclusion that he may be right.  - Blind Corner
  • He has a neurotic antipathy toward men.  - Girl Crazy (1997 film)
  • The two men are depicted as bitter rivals with a genuine antipathy for each other.  - Cor, Blimey!
  • Sam eventually comes to request for the children a tutor, answered by a local Nun, Sister Mary Philomel, who trains the children in strict traditional Catholicism, despite Sam's antipathy for religion.  - Love & Sleep
  • head doctor of a local hospital, who harbors ideological antipathy towards the German "Nazi" Rabe.  - John Rabe (film)
  • Despite a long history of antipathy between the werewolf and vampire races, Mitchell and George have formed a deep friendship: they have both taken low-profile, low-status jobs as hospital porters and live together as housemates.  - Being Human (UK TV series)
  • Despite his notorious antipathy to Catholic priests, Scroggs made no effort to distinguish between Wakeman and the three priests who were tried with him, warning the jury that no accused person, priest or layman, should suffer death for treason if there was any doubt as to their guilt.  - Maurus Corker
  • Well schooled in urban policing, he is soon confronted with a particular Navajo case: a mysterious killer who has a special antipathy for medicine men.  - Skinwalkers (2002 film)
  • However, the rivalry exists because, even though the two are siblings and already married in accordance with the royal law, they detest each other with a mutual antipathy no less murderous for being childish.  - Caesar and Cleopatra (play)
  • Using the identity of "Peter Franks", a country house burglar turned diamond smuggler, he meets Tiffany Case, an attractive gang member who has developed an antipathy towards men after being gang-raped as a teenager.  - Diamonds Are Forever (novel)
  • Private Godfrey again expresses his antipathy to "the reds" and so urges that the welcome should be unextravagant, and the vicar refuses to allow his choir to sing "The Red Flag".  - The Honourable Man
  • Later, Heera, with tearful eyes, watched the marriage of Gauri with a well-off man and he developed antipathy for love because of the distress caused by all these happenings.  - Sooryavansham
  • After finding an island on the planet, Tucker and Kaitaama soon set up camp in a swamp, and their mutual antipathy eventually gives way to burgeoning sexual tension.  - Precious Cargo (Star Trek: Enterprise)
  • Their deep antipathy towards the police for arresting them without any evidence, just because the witnesses had seen an Indian at the crime scene, grows into a daring plot.  - Kaante
  • Knowing of his sister's antipathy to the two lovers, Booby offers to reunite Joseph with his sister and take him and Fanny into his own parish and his own family.  - Joseph Andrews
  • Holman also earns the antipathy of most of his fellow sailors.  - The Sand Pebbles (film)
  • During his convalescence, he and Cathy overcome their mutual antipathy and become close.  - Wuthering Heights

Example sentences for "antipathy" in interesting articles

  • From Germany to the United Arab Emirates to China you can visit the same shops, buy the same furniture, eat the same food, watch the same programmes and listen to the same music.Chris Hirst, European and UK group chief executive of advertising agency Havas, says firms expanding overseas have to overcome people's natural antipathy to this."People don't like the idea of a global phenomenon.  - Horlicks, a drink Brits go to bed with and Indians wake up with
  • Yet, on another level, a distinct antipathy for the “entitled class” was on display in 2014 when Narendra Modi, who positioned himself as the non-elite or the outsider, swept to power.  - India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism
  • Yet there are so many of them that they’re running down pedestrians and therefore shouldn’t ride on sidewalks. The antipathy extends to the painted lanes that bikers ride on.  - The Bike Wars Are Over, and the Bikes Won
  • Progressives adopted the name as a cover up for their communism. Until recently, Lefists have not felt they had enough power to consistently act on their antipathy for people who disagree with them.  - The Yale Problem Begins in High School
  • From Germany to the United Arab Emirates to China you can visit the same shops, buy the same furniture, eat the same food, watch the same programmes and listen to the same music.Chris Hirst, European and UK group chief executive of advertising agency Havas, says firms expanding overseas have to overcome people's natural antipathy to this."People don't like the idea of a global phenomenon.  - Horlicks, a drink Brits go to bed with and Indians wake up with
  • Each of these average values, claimed Quetelet, represented the hidden qualities of the Average Man.As much as Quetelet admired the Average Man, he held an equal amount of antipathy toward those unfortunate individuals who deviated from the average.  - How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented
  • Last summer, for example, Blackstone’s Schwarzman caused an uproar when he said an Obama proposal to raise taxes on private-equity-firm compensation—by treating “carried interest” as ordinary income—was “like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.” However histrionic his imagery, Schwarzman (who subsequently apologized for the remark) is a Republican, so his antipathy toward the current administration is no surprise.  - The Rise of the New Global Elite
  • Many Americans have chosen to live in suburbia out of a historic antipathy for life in the city and particularly a fear of the underclass that has come to dwell there.  - "Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work"
  • “These aversions are not based on hostile antipathy but on fear, unease, or discomfort.” And the idea of implicit bias—that subconscious attitudes and beliefs could shape actions—entrenched the notion that prejudice included negative racial sentiments held by people even if they were unaware of harboring them.In yet another evolution, prejudice was no longer restricted to negative group evaluations.  - How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm
  • She was, in the words of a supervisor, “unable to be insincere.” Her long ordeal and her deep antipathy to the Soviet party-state became Tolkachev’s, too.* * *The painful history of the Kuzmin family was passed down to Natasha—and to Adik—in her father’s last years.  - How a troubled past turned a Soviet engineer into a valuable spy

Meaning of "antipathy" in English

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

Meaning of "antipathy" in Hindi

  • घृणा ( Ghrina, ghrinaa)
  • शत्रुता ( Shatruta, shatrutaa)
  • अनिच्छा ( Anichchha, anichchhaa)
  • वैरभाव
  • विद्वेष ( Vidvesh, widwesh)
  • विरोध ( Virodh, wirodh)
  • चिढ़ ( Chidh)
  • वैर-भाव ( Vair-bhav, vair-bhaav, wair-bhaw)

Synonyms of "antipathy"

  • distaste
  • aversion

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