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ill feeling

American  

noun

  1. animosity or resentment felt toward another.

ill feeling British  

noun

  1. hostile feeling; animosity

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Ill feeling also grew as the team’s success declined over the past decade.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

Ill feeling towards the monitors is not limited to the government, though.

From Reuters • Jun. 18, 2012

Ill feeling seeks to destroy—already it turns to wickedness.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

Ill feeling sprang up, quarrels, lawsuits, all the dreadful sequel of a neighbors' feud.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague

Ill feeling arises all the more readily if B feels that A has not been as assiduous as he should have been.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

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