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woman-hater
[ woom-uhn-hey-ter ]
noun
- 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.
From Salon
He is also a white supremacist, a woman-hater, a confirmed sexual predator, a megalomaniac and various other bad things.
From Salon
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.”
From New York Times
The term comes from a Jacobean play, “Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women,” produced at London’s Red Bull Theatre in 1618.
From Los Angeles Times
A gifted young sculptor of Cyprus, named Pygmalion, was a woman-hater.
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