Sentence examples for antipathetic from inspiring English sources

The word "antipathetic" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this word to describe when someone is unfriendly or hostile towards something. For example, "He felt antipathetic towards his new boss."

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antipathetic

adjective

Having or showing a strong aversion or repugnance

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A good example is Geoffrey Warnock's account of the attitude displayed one another by Ayer and J. L. Austin, from the early days in Oxford in the 1930s his most powerful and influential opponent".The fact is that Freddie Ayer and Austin were grossly, almost ludicrously incompatible, antipathetic characters.

The two leaders, for all their amity, were not the men they once were; their subordinates, John Foster Dulles and Anthony Eden, were antipathetic; and, above all, the role and status of each country had changed.

The days of the Lucknow Pact were over, and by the start of 1921 the antipathetic forces of revivalist Hindu and Muslim agitation, destined to lead to the birth of the independent dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947, were thus clearly set in motion in their separate directions.

A member of the old officer corps antipathetic to Hitler, Kluge had established contacts with the conspirators against the Führer but had no knowledge of the assassination attempt of July 20 , 1944

As part of his policy of preserving the impartiality of the Holy See and serving as mediator between nations, Pius did not want to antagonize fascist Italy and Nazi Germany by issuing an encyclical that would have provoked them, a decision now cited by historians antipathetic to the pope as a sign of his indifference in the face of evil.

The boldness and originality of his music met with incomprehension and was mocked by the powerful Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick, who was a champion of the German composer Johannes Brahms and was antipathetic toward Wagner.

Alexis was his natural heir, but he grew up antipathetic to Peter and receptive to reactionary influences working against Peter's reforms.

Added to the embarrassment of past glories, Italian artists had to cope with being Italian artists: that is to say, with finding a national voice for a state which, pre-Garibaldi, had been dozens of fiercely antipathetic mini-states.

Mr Dacre has written to the commission saying that plans to increase government secrecy are "entirely antipathetic to the mood of the times, in which voters expect more, not less transparency in the way they are governed".

The author describes himself as a spiritual atheist, but his mixed parentage has helped him understand the dynamics of integration between antipathetic cultures, and he extends understanding (if not always sympathy) to his varied cast of characters.

As for Trotsky, it is not that I feel antipathetic to him, indeed I think he is one of the few great figures of the twentieth century, and I've always felt sympathetically close to him, but the Trotsky movement in America is unspeakably arid and hidebound.

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