as in hostility
a deep-seated ill will
there's been bad blood between the two families for years
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Recent Examples of bad blood
The Twilight hunk reshared a post from the NFL to support his ex and her future husband, proving there’s no bad blood between them.
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Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Aug. 2025
However, there is no bad blood between my former boyfriend and myself.
—Tabitha Parent, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Hard to pick this one since rivalry week brings compelling games with bad blood surrounding in-state matchups like this.
—Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025
It’s been 14 years since these two programs, fueled by historic bad blood, have squared off on the gridiron with Mizzou’s departure to the SEC in 2012.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bad blood
Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Aug. 2025
However, there is no bad blood between my former boyfriend and myself.
—Tabitha Parent, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Hard to pick this one since rivalry week brings compelling games with bad blood surrounding in-state matchups like this.
—Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025
It’s been 14 years since these two programs, fueled by historic bad blood, have squared off on the gridiron with Mizzou’s departure to the SEC in 2012.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad blood
Noun
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For example, in a fiery defense of federal aid to the citizens of Alabama and Georgia devastated by recent Native American hostilities, Adams invoked Congress’s war powers, while calling attention to a deeper hypocrisy.—
Time,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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Even countries like Iran, which have long used the Palestinian cause as a pretext for hostility, would now face a diplomatic reckoning.—
Faisal J. Abbas,
semafor.com,
24 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
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And hatred rather than ideology is the animating force?—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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More violence, more anger, more hatred.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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The examples of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, where life after revolution is replete with bitterness and recrimination, are profoundly discouraging.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Blessed with tender skins and jammy interiors, fresh figs can offset the tang of tomatoes and bitterness of salad greens.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Bad blood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad%20blood. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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