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[ noun ] the feeling of a hostile person

Synonyms

enmity hostility

Examples

"he could no longer contain his hostility"

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

These booze customers had until then been buying their supplies from the Sheldon , Saltis-McErlane , and Druggan-Lake gangs , and now they were competing for trade with the Torrio-Capone saloons ; once_again O_'_Banion 's brash recklessness had caused a proliferation of ill_will .

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[ noun ] a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition

Synonyms

hostility

Examples

"he could not conceal his hostility"

Related terms

unfriendliness virulence

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