antiwomen

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adjective

Prejudiced against women; misogynistic.

Opposite
prowomen
Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveantiwomen (not generally comparable, comparative more antiwomen, superlative most antiwomen)

comparative more antiwomen · superlative most antiwomen

  1. not comparableusuallyPrejudiced against women; misogynistic.

    Val Glaser, the board member behind the 10-3 vote (with three abstentions) to quash the poster, told Windy City Times: "Playboy is antiwomen and thus antilesbian.

    1991 October 25, Michael Miner, “Burn This Poster?/Local News”, in Chicago Reader
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    13 years have passed from when we first started this labeling exercise and clearly, by anybody's definition, the music today is more violent, more hateful, more antiwomen than before — and these are top Billboard chart records.

    2000, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Labels and Lyrics: Do Parental Advisory Labels Inform Consumers and Parents? : Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 16, 1998, page 50

    The show did not adequately condemn such violence and it carried a commercial that was also antiwomen. The women's community was upset about this show and the commercial.

    2010, Mark Brady, The Wisdom of Listening, page 242

    Synonyms: antiwoman, antifemale

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivePrejudiced against women; misogynistic.

Opposite
prowomen

Origin

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