Definitions

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  • adjective Unpleasant, odious, unsympathetic, harsh, (of person) crabby.

Etymologies

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From Italian antipatico.

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Examples

  • Pedro thinks in a way that he called antipatico, a way of dealing with odious things, which I can only describe as 'Puh!'

    NYT > Home Page By PATRICK HEALY 2010

  • Pedro thinks in a way that he called antipatico, a way of dealing with odious things, which I can only describe as 'Puh!'

    NYT > Home Page By PATRICK HEALY 2010

  • "But if Alice feels something inimical -- antipatico -- in her atmosphere, it's no use talking."

    April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878

  • Devo ammetterlo, Beppe Grillo negli ultimi anni mi sta sempre piu 'antipatico.

    DElyMyth - /dev/null - Quasi Community (by Elena Franco - a.k.a. DElyMyth) 2008

  • (which is also remarkable), but particularly for having this portrait an expression of stupidity, and for its being molto antipatico, as we say in our language.

    A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911

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