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

For that matter, his parasitic or symbiotic relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been a matter of public record since at least 2003, when the Harvard Crimson earned his eternal enmity by reporting on it.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 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

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

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025

But it was an enmity controlled from above—by nobles who were not sincerely anxious for each other’s blood.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White