as in hostility
a deep-seated ill will
his open animosity towards us made our meeting very uncomfortable
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Recent Examples of animosity
Still, Ann felt no animosity toward the Kennedys.
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Ariana Quihuiz, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Traditional ideological divides — once centered on policy disagreements — have morphed into a deeper, more personal animosity.
—Lauren De Young, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Senate Republicans will likely have to deploy a rare procedural motion to shut down the filibuster, risking deepening fractures in a chamber that is already embroiled in bitter animosity.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Maybe there won’t be any animosity at all.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
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Ariana Quihuiz, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Traditional ideological divides — once centered on policy disagreements — have morphed into a deeper, more personal animosity.
—Lauren De Young, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Senate Republicans will likely have to deploy a rare procedural motion to shut down the filibuster, risking deepening fractures in a chamber that is already embroiled in bitter animosity.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Maybe there won’t be any animosity at all.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for animosity
Noun
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to preserve its independence at any cost, stand on its own feet, and firmly resist the excessive demands, aggression, and acts of hostility by foreign powers—including the United States and the Zionist regime.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The message refers to the conflict in Gaza and calls for an end to hostilities.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Darkly funny and deeply melancholic, the film turns the family estate into a pressure cooker of grief, grudges and reluctant affection.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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After Abe’s assassination in 2022 by a suspect who said he was motivated by a grudge against the church, an internal survey in the LDP later found that nearly half of the party’s members had links to it.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Foreign perpetrators have been linked to previous acts intended to incite hatred.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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The left is always, at all times and places, a violent phenomenon full of hatred.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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But her private letters to her sister Cassandra show a sharper and more astringent person, someone whose cruelty and bitterness were redeemed only by her jokes.—
Lucy Worsley
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Bitter Mai Tai is a full-fledged neo classic, first bright with lime and rum, then deep with almond, and then—where a standard Mai Tai would fall away with a lingering malic zing—the Bitter Mai Tai rises in a bold third act, humming with bitterness and the banana-funk of the rum.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Animosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animosity. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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