Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Hatred or mistrust of women.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hatred of women.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hatred of women. Contrast
misandry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Hatred of,contempt for, orprejudice againstwomen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hatred of women
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To call it misogyny is to put your lack of thinking and writing skills on display.
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To call it misogyny is to put your lack of thinking and writing skills on display.
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To say as Howard has that Timbaland and Simmons are part not part of the hip hop culture that traffics in misogyny is like saying that John Gotti was not a part of the mafia culture that trafficked in heroin.
Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias Smack Down: Politicians Love Hip-Hop 2007
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I keep seeing people throw around the term misogyny with respect to Hillary, but I've seen no one define how the treatment of Hillary is at all different from the crap EVERY candidate for President has to deal with?
"Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You ..." Rogers 2008
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To call it misogyny is to put your lack of thinking and writing skills on display.
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Hey, the term misogyny is not gender or sex-specific, and many straight men dislike women.
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He examines six areas of Shakespeare's works (what he calls misogyny, effemiphobia, machismo, elitism and mobocracy, racialism and intelligent design), proposing that cases from each, "admittedly without conclusive proof ... may be the result of his personal convictions and experiences," as well as (in addition to) the cultural zeitgeist of his time.
PhiloBiblos 2009
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Interestingly, a counter-taboo has emerged as, for the US liberal, it has become inextricable from the abhorrence through which that conservative misogyny is itself judged as morally obscene.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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And just so you know, misogyny is greatly disdained here.
A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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The catastrophe of misogyny is foremost the loss of our collective sense of humanity - our ability to see ourselves reflected in each other.
Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix) Roya Rastegar 2010
chained_bear commented on the word misogyny
"'It is my belief, brother, that your misogyny is largely theoretical.'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 50
March 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word misogyny
wth?
May 9, 2009
sbose64 commented on the word misogyny
its near blasphemy searching for the word misogyny on international womens day but nevertheless.....!!
March 8, 2015