misogynistic

[ mi-soj-uh-nis-tik, mahy‑ ]

adjective

1. reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.
2. reflecting or exhibiting ingrained and institutionalized prejudice against women; sexist:

   misogynistic attitudes stemming from the highest corporate level.

Word History and Origins

Origin of misogynistic¹

First recorded in 1820–25; misogynist ( def ) + -ic ( def )

Example Sentences

If anything, a dude who is respectful to a woman’s face but turns around and does pathetic, misogynistic locker-room talk behind her back is worse than the standard FBoy.

From Time

Eunuchs played an important role in the Byzantine Empire, understood not quite as men, and often attacked with misogynistic language and stereotypes.

From Washington Post

In a misogynistic society, they are pitted against each other never knowing how much they actually have in common.

From Washington Post

The sad truth is our cause was set back by over 60 years of brutal and misogynistic oppression by the Burmese military.

From Time

Silicon Valley has long been plagued by gender bias issues and inequality, and Apple employees opposed to his hiring said it was unfair to expect women at the company to work with someone who’d expressed and never apologized for misogynistic views.

From Vox

The world is changing, and men really could use a movement—just not the misogynistic, conspiracy-minded one they have now.

From The Daily Beast

She called him out for his misogynistic remarks and asked why, if the show was satire like everyone said, Ed had no foils.

From The Daily Beast

Can misogynistic and baseless tabloid narratives go out of style?

From The Daily Beast

VH1 hosted a Twitter QA with Robin Thicke, an RB singer of irrefutably misogynistic nature, in late June.

From The Daily Beast

His father could be temperamental and misogynistic, but the family was never plagued with major money-laundering or sex scandals.

From The Daily Beast

These are devoted to love and matrimony, giving rhetorical expression to the misogynistic side of the Novelle.

From Project Gutenberg

But there had been a quarrel (in German script), and the mighty Norseman had grown mightily misogynistic.

From Project Gutenberg

No doubt these sights had confirmed him in his misogynistic broodings.

From Project Gutenberg

Captain Puffin was a great cynic in his own misogynistic way.

From Project Gutenberg