antipathetic to new ideas. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : They were antipathetic to many of the proposed changes ,The new management was antipathetic to all of us. From Dictionary.com.
Schoenfeld is "antipathetic" to the New York Times. From Wordnik.com. [Power Line] Reference
“Reflection is so antipathetic to it!” cried Joseph. From Wordnik.com. [Another Study of a Woman] Reference
Supposedly, I should somehow be antipathetic to Muslims. From Wordnik.com. [To Muslims of America, I Apologize (Reissue)] Reference
There must be something in them which to me is antipathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Was he anti-Semitic?] Reference
That made Bink wonder again: was the sun antipathetic to magic?. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
The whole place and everything about it was antipathetic to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Belton Estate] Reference
“The antipathetic fallacy and the boundaries of consciousness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
And the people she did receive were antipathetic to Miss Longestaffe. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
They are merely antipathetic to the emotional state they place them in. From Wordnik.com. [No empathy for empathy] Reference
Fanaticism, asceticism, superstition were naturally antipathetic to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
It derives its strength from its hospitality even to antipathetic ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Contagion of freedom? Or appeal of submission?] Reference
‘It is a bitter cold place,’ Mr. Jasper assents, with an antipathetic shiver. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
A man who marries a woman who is physically antipathetic to him is a criminal fool. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
I think that is antipathetic--what skin off your back is it if such a prize exists?. From Wordnik.com. [Good, better, best] Reference
I think that is antipathetic—what skin off your back is it if such a prize exists?. From Wordnik.com. [Good, better, best] Reference
He is still antipathetic to me, not because he preaches but because he preaches badly. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
No woman wishes her dearest friend to marry a man to whom she herself is antipathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
Germany, were people whose defects and antipathetic countenances were familiar to him. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
Edwards is becoming antipathetic and I don't know why anyone would believe him about anything. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards Adviser Joe Trippi Slams Iraq Compromise Strategies As "Baloney"] Reference
Turner's work “was antipathetic to him because of the exuberant romanticism of his fancy.”. From Wordnik.com. [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference
Possibly it was an antipathetic reaction, induced by the renewed recollection of her proceeding. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
Now, it is well known that there is nothing more antipathetic to your peasant-boy than your shopboy. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Most of the criticism comes from antipathetic perspectives and more superficially, wishful thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Clarification] Reference
He shifted sideways on the couch, hands held like an advocate attempting to convince an antipathetic jury. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
An Englishman spoke to him from across the aisle but he found something antipathetic in the English lately. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
An irrational instinct had rendered the painter and his paintings antipathetic to him at their first meeting. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Their tempers clashed, their natures were antipathetic, their views contradictory, their positions irreconcilable. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
Also, there are frequent reports of masses established under the Motu Propriu being removed by antipathetic bishops. From Wordnik.com. [URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion] Reference
"Also, there are frequent reports of masses established under the Motu Propriu being removed by antipathetic bishops". From Wordnik.com. [URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion] Reference
Of the latter, it must be admitted, he had more than enough -- or, at least, men to whom he was intensely antipathetic. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
He is in rebellion, not merely against his elders, but against something antipathetic to him in the temper of his time. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
But elsewhere among an African elite markedly antipathetic toward flamboyant Western gays, von Kloberg found many takers. From Wordnik.com. [The Pariah Guy] Reference
Additionally, the huge group of recent immigrants to America were Scots-Irish, antipathetic to the crown for good reason. From Wordnik.com. [It’s Patriots’ Day] Reference
He was deeply antipathetic to quantum theory, and refused for years to accept what he called "spooky actions at a distance". From Wordnik.com. [Philip Slater: Why What Frightens 'Skeptics' Frightened Einstein] Reference
Moreover, illness is my very antipodes, -- its nearness is invasion, -- we are utterly antipathetic, -- it disgusts and repels me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Thus Morocco is populated by two antipathetic races, who neither singly nor jointly have or can consolidate it into a thriving empire. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
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