alienate
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Following the collapse of the magazine he was recruited to work on Vanity Fair in New York, an experience that inspired his book "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People".
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2018
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, a comedy starring Simon Pegg as a writer for an upmarket US magazine, returned only £9,977 of the £1,471,145 lottery money invested.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2011
Alienate not from your body the affections of a whole empire.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
Alienate not from your body the affections of a whole Empire!
From The American Union Speaker by Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley)
Antagonize, Alienate, Oppose The word antagonize should not be used in the sense of alienate; as, "Your proposition will antagonize many supporters of the measure."
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks
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