hostility

Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.
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Amanda came home to largely welcoming American arms, her case held up as an example of hostility to Americans abroad.
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For instance, when a couple is having trouble, the tension and hostility can bleed into BDSM scenes.
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Even the way the term “aliens” is used to describe migrants spotted in the desert has an air of hostility.
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Undeterred, Wanda and Ida press on along a road of hostility and dissimulation that will lead to the harrowing end of their quest.
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They had shown in their convention a few weeks before their hostility to autonomy.
The History of Cuba, vol. 4|Willis Fletcher Johnson
One sorrow approaches humiliation and hostility, and these thoughts have revived me.
The Last Days of Tolstoy|V. G. Chertkov
For priests he had not a civil word; and they showed their sense of his hostility by getting him killed as soon as possible.
Preface to Androcles and the Lion|George Bernard Shaw
Although he had himself dreaded a good deal from the hostility of the Pottawattamie, he could have wished this deed undone.
Oak Openings|James Fenimore Cooper
He was sensible only of their hostility and utter want of sympathy.
Tales of Space and Time|Herbert George Wells

British Dictionary definitions for hostility

hostility

/ (hɒˈstɪlɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

enmity or antagonism

an act expressing enmity or opposition

(plural) fighting; warfare

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hostility

noun, plural hos·til·i·ties.

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noun plural -ties