Meaning

Hating women..

Definitions by Sense

1. Hating women.
2. Hatred of women; misogyny.

Example Sentences

But these attitudes in male writers were taken for granted, accepted as sound philosophical bases, as quite normal, certainly not as womanhating, aggressive or neurotic.

And as Germaine Greer points out, the “lay,” if finally granted, or an endless series of them, tends to make the womanhating man even more hateful and contemptuous.

I was walking across the campus of Howard University with my boyfriend, a possessive pre-med student, who later revealed himself to be a womanhating thug, when I saw his older sister, also a Howard student, coming toward us, arm in arm with her boyfriend who was visiting for the big weekend.

My own favorite is the story of Fat Tissa, who noisily celebrates the nuns’ monk patron Ananda above the much more distinguished—but also womanhating—Mahakassapa, thus bringing down the latter’s wrath on poor Ananda.

Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives.

Remember when you think about sex that men often use it to express power, control, womanhating and violence.

Men bond through the womanhating they display in each other's presence through jokes or sexual harassment or stories of conquest.

Word Forms

• more womanhating
• most womanhating

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