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woman-hater

[ woom-uhn-hey-ter ]

noun

  1. a person, especially a man, who dislikes women; misogynist.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of woman-hater1

First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences

Becoming a bile-spewing woman-hater will not help.

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He is also a white supremacist, a woman-hater, a confirmed sexual predator, a megalomaniac and various other bad things.

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And her brand of sexual politics encountered hostility from critics like Pauline Kael, Molly Haskell and Ellen Willis, who called Ms. Wertmüller “a woman-hater who pretends to be a feminist.”

The term comes from a Jacobean play, “Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women,” produced at London’s Red Bull Theatre in 1618.

A gifted young sculptor of Cyprus, named Pygmalion, was a woman-hater.

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