Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Hating the female sex; woman-hating.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny; misogynistic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Hating women; having deep-seated distrust of women; -- used of men.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. hating women in particular
Examples
“No religious leaders or major religion or government would recommend or support such horrors, or display the kind of misogynous and weirdo-erotic elements as were found in the sexually repressed, male-dominated society of the 16th of 17th century Europe and America.”
“Women were in the forefront of the uprising in the summer of 2009, when the Iranian youth called for unseating the misogynous clerics and establishment of democracy in Iran.”
The Huffington Post: Soona Samsami: Women Will Lead to Bring Freedom to Iran and Middle East
“The Taliban is, in fact, nothing but a cadre of misogynous thugs masquerading under the banner of militant Islam.”
Matthew Yglesias » American Public Prepared to Support Israel in Endless War With Arabs
“I did not claim that there were no misogynous or unsavoury aspects to porn.”
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture”
“But Mel Gibson's misogynous racism is hardly aberrational.”
“In fact, in just one sentence (of the longer taped conversation) Gibson not only provided concrete evidence that two long-discredited and damaging rape myths still persist; but he also managed to demonstrate the misogynous anger that lies close to the ideological core of a rapist mentality, and to provide one example of the many intersections of sexism and racism.”
“Alito proudly noted his membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a now-defunct ultra-right group famous for misogynous opposition to women, open disdain for minorities on campus and overt bigotry against homosexuals.”
“Ann o'D - it seems to me its always the righteous who are the most misogynous.”
“It would be interesting to hear what the WLAO thought of the frequent misogynous postings on Lawbuzz.”
“Does the professional bond among/between lawyers trump the notion that male lawyers ought not set up sites which frequently engage in misogynous discourse as a form of juvenile gratification.”
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