mortal enemy
noun
: someone one hates very much and for a long time
They've been mortal enemies for many years.
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Bebe Neuwirth reprised her role as Frasier's ex-wife/mortal enemy Dr. Lilith Sternin and Peri Gilpin returned as bestie Roz Doyle in the season finale.
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Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2024
Reagan sold weapons to Iran, our mortal enemy, to fund the Contras in a war for which Congress had cut off funding.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
Blue is the color of melancholy but also of its mortal enemy, the very thing that follows the storm clouds of loneliness and despair: which is hope, which is the chance to begin again, which is a clear, blue sky.
—Emily Leibert, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
The Islamic State, a mortal enemy of Iran, claimed responsibility.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
While Esau seemed to see something admirable in Bass from their day-one encounter (when Reeves was still under the confines of slavery), an unfortunate turn of events toward the end of episode one would forever make Esau a mortal enemy in Bass’ eyes.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
Doing so created a conflict because measurement is the mortal enemy of entanglement.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
What are the risks for Travis King? King, believed to be the first US soldier to cross into North Korea since 1982, is in the hands of a notoriously autocratic and opaque one-party regime that regards the United States as a mortal enemy.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
King is now in the hands of a notoriously autocratic and opaque one party regime that regards the United States as a mortal enemy.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 19 July 2023
Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2024
Reagan sold weapons to Iran, our mortal enemy, to fund the Contras in a war for which Congress had cut off funding.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
Blue is the color of melancholy but also of its mortal enemy, the very thing that follows the storm clouds of loneliness and despair: which is hope, which is the chance to begin again, which is a clear, blue sky.
—Emily Leibert, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
The Islamic State, a mortal enemy of Iran, claimed responsibility.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
While Esau seemed to see something admirable in Bass from their day-one encounter (when Reeves was still under the confines of slavery), an unfortunate turn of events toward the end of episode one would forever make Esau a mortal enemy in Bass’ eyes.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
Doing so created a conflict because measurement is the mortal enemy of entanglement.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
What are the risks for Travis King? King, believed to be the first US soldier to cross into North Korea since 1982, is in the hands of a notoriously autocratic and opaque one-party regime that regards the United States as a mortal enemy.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
King is now in the hands of a notoriously autocratic and opaque one party regime that regards the United States as a mortal enemy.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 19 July 2023
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