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Recent Examples of ill-wisher
As a small country with many ill-wishers, surrounded by militias that clamor for its destruction, Israel often feels itself under siege and classifies any action against it as an unforgivable betrayal.
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
Conveniently, her ill-wishers can’t follow her there.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
Kadyrov denies rights abuses, saying such allegations are fabricated by ill-wishers trying to discredit Chechnya and its authorities.
—Reuters, NBC News, 5 July 2023
Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
Conveniently, her ill-wishers can’t follow her there.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
Kadyrov denies rights abuses, saying such allegations are fabricated by ill-wishers trying to discredit Chechnya and its authorities.
—Reuters, NBC News, 5 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-wisher
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Volunteer historians and re-enactors will share living history of a small portion of Napoleon’s French Grande Army and the empire’s enemies, Britain, Austria, Prussia and their allies, on campaign in Spain.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 May 2025
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Dog Man must then foil the evil plans of his enemy, Petey, an orange cat (voiced by Pete Davidson), who clones himself in an effort to create a criminal sidekick but ends up with a curious kitten, Li’l Petey (Lucas Hopkins Calderon) instead.—
Danielle Directo-Meston,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2025
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Trump’s threats to annex Canada and his tariffs have pulled the ruling Liberal party out of spiraling approval ratings and could propel Mark Carney, the Liberal candidate and sitting prime minister, to victory over Pierre Poilievre, his conservative opponent.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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His opponents called him a fascist, but this only seemed to backfire.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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They are designed to evade an adversary's missile warning sensors.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
26 Apr. 2025
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Those strongmen have won legitimate elections but then stacked the democratic decks in their favor by rewarding allies, punishing adversaries, crippling the media and civil society, and turning the state into an instrument of their own agenda and political preservation.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Akshaye Khanna plays the main antagonist, Aurangzeb.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Trailers for the film have already unveiled a certain blood-sucking creature as the main antagonist, but Coogler has avoided labeling Sinners as a vampire movie, promising something a little more complex.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Previous victories Screwworms aren't a new foe for the US.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
2 May 2025
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Harvard has emerged as the Trump administration’s most high-profile foe after the White House’s Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism last month announced a freeze of more than $2 billion in its federal research funding.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“Ill-wisher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-wisher. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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