hostility
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Hostility to entrepreneurship cost jobs, and unemployment remained high.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
Hostility toward its volunteers has seeped into mainstream politics.
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025
"Hostility to human rights is at its heart and no amendments can salvage it," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2024
Hostility to the U.S. has always been a rallying point for Iran's clerical establishment, despite political isolation and sanctions-related economic hardship since Washington severed ties with Tehran shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2023
Unconsciously looking upon Goldsmith as a meer Encumbrance when compar'd to the greater Man, the Foreigner bluntly interrupted him and incurr'd his lasting Hostility by crying, "Hush, Toctor Shonson iss going to speak!"
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Vocabulary lists containing hostility
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
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