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not on speaking terms
adjective as in unfriendly
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- acrimonious
- against
- alien
- aloof
- antisocial
- censorious
- cold
- competitive
- conflicting
- contrary
- disaffected
- disagreeable
- distant
- grouchy
- grudging
- gruff
- ill-disposed
- inauspicious
- inimical
- malicious
- malignant
- misanthropic
- opposed
- opposite
- quarrelsome
- sour
- spiteful
- surly
- uncharitable
- uncongenial
- unneighborly
- unpropitious
- unsociable
- vengeful
- warlike
Example Sentences
A year later, during a 2009 appearance on music show “106 & Park,” Eminem confirmed he was not on speaking terms with his mother but said he had gained a “better understanding of what she was going through” over the years.
Relations will most likely return to what they were between Argentina's current Peronist President Alberto Fernandez and Brazil's Bolsonaro, who were not on speaking terms, he said.
Sunny and Charlie were not on speaking terms long before the the family feud soon spilled into the public domain.
Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, is not on speaking terms with the former president, having abruptly turned against him after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Mr. Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, are not on speaking terms, and his senior-most supporter in the Senate was previously Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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