misogyny
/mɪˈsɒdʒ(ə)ni
/noun [mass noun]
Dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women: she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny...
- There is nothing amusing about snobbery, racism, bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia.
- The old comics are on their last legs because foreigner-fearing, homophobic bigotry and misogyny are no longer as acceptable as they once were.
- People can't choose their skin colour, or their sex or their sexual orientation, which is why racism and misogyny are so repellent.
Derivatives
misogynous
- Both nature and the process of scientific enquiry appear conceptualized in ways modelled on rape and torture - on man's most violent and misogynous relationship with women.
- When Clare Boothe's The Women was first produced on Broadway in 1936, it was seen as not only antifeminist but outright misogynous.
- I know, I come across as misogynous when I say that.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Greek misos 'hatred' + gunē 'woman'.
Rhymes
- iron-sided
- Ironsides
- ironsmith
- iron something out
- iron sponge
- iron stain
- iron-stand
- ironstone
- ironstone china
- ironstone ware
- iron-strap
- iron sulfate
- iron sulfide
- iron sulphate
- iron sulphide
- iron tree
- iron triangle
- iron virgin
- iron walls
- ironware
- iron way
- iron wedding
- ironweed
- iron-willed
- iron-witted