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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
misogynist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The movie is a moral tale about a misogynist who dies and is reborn as a beautiful woman.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Appropriately, for one named after a wife-murderer, Mr Punch remained a misogynist to the end.
▪ But perhaps even misogynists can kick over the traces.
▪ Firstly, it ignores those male, often misogynist, philosophers who have emphasised relations and continual processes.
▪ Some hip-hop or heavy metal fans might not see further than the pleasure of destruction, might be real-life misogynists and miscreants.
▪ They exposed the deeply misogynist attitudes which formed the hidden element in policy making.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misogynist

Misogynist \Mi*sog"y*nist\ (m[i^]*s[o^]j"[i^]*n[i^]st), n. [Gr. misogy`nhs, misogy`naios; misei^n to hate + gynh` woman: cf. F. misogyne.] A woman hater. Contrast misandrist.
--Fuller.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misogynist

1610s, from Greek misogynes "woman-hater" (see misogyny).

Wiktionary
misogynist

n. 1 One who professes misogyny; a hater of women. 2 One who displays prejudice against or looks down upon women.

WordNet
misogynist

n. a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular [syn: woman hater]

Usage examples of "misogynist".

CHAPTER XVIII The rumour circulated that Sir Austin Feverel, the recluse of Raynham, the rank misogynist, the rich baronet, was in town, looking out a bride for his only son and uncorrupted heir.

In much of Light in August, the Christian religion is self-righteous and vindictive, and even racist and misogynist (antiwoman).

Astarte, or Ashtoreth, as they called her, reigned in the First Temple of Jerusalem alongside Yahweh and, periodically, in place of him, a state of affairs that rankled the right-wing misogynists of the Yahwehistic extreme.

Complete files, too tame to be Hudgens' secret stash--Commies, queers, lezbos, dopesters, satyrs, nymphos, misogynists, mobbought politicos.

Having been a bachelor and misogynist all his life, he was engulfed, in death, by a sea of giant, noisy, omnicompetent women, who came crawling out from strange corners of the city, from milking jobs at Amul Dairies and from the box‑offices of cinemas, from street‑side soda‑fountains and unhappy marriages.

They lack the mass-market appeal inherent to hearsay accounts of an attractive woman's sex life and attempts to portray a career misogynist as a lost brother to the Scottsboro Boys, and until the blood-oozing interactive Oj.