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  • adjective Acting against females.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ female.

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Examples

  • But preventing other women from exerting full control over their bodies and health, assessing their value as lesser than the value of the fetuses they carried, was, it seemed to me and many others, fundamentally antifeminist and antifemale.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • But preventing other women from exerting full control over their bodies and health, assessing their value as lesser than the value of the fetuses they carried, was, it seemed to me and many others, fundamentally antifeminist and antifemale.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • But preventing other women from exerting full control over their bodies and health, assessing their value as lesser than the value of the fetuses they carried, was, it seemed to me and many others, fundamentally antifeminist and antifemale.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • But preventing other women from exerting full control over their bodies and health, assessing their value as lesser than the value of the fetuses they carried, was, it seemed to me and many others, fundamentally antifeminist and antifemale.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • JAP humor, so apparently antifemale, is all the more complex because the teller of the joke is also its victim.

    Stereotypes in the United States. 2009

  • Not surprisingly, her discovery of the apparent antifemale bias of women theater executives was prominently featured in most of the news stories about “Opening the Curtain on Playwright Gender.”

    Does Broadway Need Women? 2009

  • I understand that it was an essentially antifemale celebration, in which the patriarchy of the new male religions symbolically—and sometimes actually—put to death the ancient female power.

    Twilight Nancy Pickard 1995

  • And this goddamned school is antifemale, they look down on women, especially women my age.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • And this goddamned school is antifemale, they look down on women, especially women my age.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • And this goddamned school is antifemale, they look down on women, especially women my age.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

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