hostility
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(noun) acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities" |
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Synonyms: belligerency |
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Related Words: armed combat, combat |
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(noun) a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility" |
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Synonyms: ill will |
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Related Words: unfriendliness, virulence |
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(noun) the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility" |
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Synonyms: enmity, ill will |
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Related Words: aggression, aggressiveness, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad blood, belligerence, belligerency, bitterness, class feeling, gall, hate, hatred, rancor, rancour, resentment |
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(noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will |
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Synonyms: antagonism, enmity |
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Related Words: latent hostility, state, state of war, suspicion, tension, war |
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(noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked |
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Synonyms: aggression |
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Related Words: action, force, meat grinder, pillage, pillaging, plundering, violence |
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