enmity

Example Sentences

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“The real evils in war,” St. Augustine once wrote, are “love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

While the two men's enmity was never completely hidden, Newsom at least appeared to try a bipartisan hug that would keep the mercurial president involved in the costly recovery.

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

But the real problems began in 1973, when the service broadcast gavel-to-gavel prime-time coverage of the Watergate hearings, earning the enmity of President Richard Nixon.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2025

It was their third electoral match-up but the enmity went beyond ballot-box rivalry.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025

He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding