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
However, there is no bad blood between my former boyfriend and myself.
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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
Now, however, the two-time Olympic silver medalist says that there is no bad blood between them.
—Coy Wire, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
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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
Now, however, the two-time Olympic silver medalist says that there is no bad blood between them.
—Coy Wire, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad blood
Noun
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When faced with Laura’s hostility, what can Cherry do but lose her mind, smash a glass against her head, and tell Daniel that his mother did it?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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The conflict between Israel and Palestine was dividing friends, sparking tensions, and fueling rising acts of hostility.—
Rchin Bari,
Boston Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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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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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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Regarding her own father, former Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, there is such entrenched bitterness, and this situation makes any reconciliation far from likely.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The biggest casualty, says Srivastava, will be the goodwill between India and the United States, built after decades of bitterness over Washington's support of India's adversaries like Pakistan.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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