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hostility

/ho-stil-i-tee/US // hɒˈstɪl ɪ ti //UK // (hɒˈstɪlɪtɪ) //

敌对性,敌视,敌意,戾气

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural hos·til·i·ties.

    • : a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
    • : a hostile act.
    • : opposition or resistance to an idea, plan, project, etc.
    • : hostilities, acts of warfare.war.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounantagonism, meanness
Forms: hostilities

Examples

  • Such government hostility toward people of faith has no place in a free society.

  • It claimed its armed forces had destroyed 26 Armenian tanks since the hostilities began on Sunday.

  • It’s a perfect storm of know-nothingism and just a general, always-on level of hostility.

  • Yet at the same time, renormalization’s hostility to microscopic details works against the efforts of modern physicists who are hungry for signs of the next realm down.

  • Long-term Dunedin data indicate, for instance, that undercontrolled kids provoked hostility in parents, peers and teachers.

  • Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.

  • Amanda came home to largely welcoming American arms, her case held up as an example of hostility to Americans abroad.

  • For instance, when a couple is having trouble, the tension and hostility can bleed into BDSM scenes.

  • Even the way the term “aliens” is used to describe migrants spotted in the desert has an air of hostility.

  • The widespread hostility of local people makes it far more difficult for the authorities to track the militia.

  • He was looking at me with eyebrows arched, curiously, and there was a faint suggestion of hostility in the set of his mouth.

  • Thine is the spirit of universal liberty and love—of uncompromising hostility to every form of injustice and wrong.

  • In 1811 the growing hostility of Russia required the attendance of the Prince of Eckmhl at the headquarters of his command.

  • The hostility with which he regarded this group of composers had its origin in his distrustful attitude towards society generally.

  • This marriage caused secret hostility between the two fathers, one being the other's superior in office.