as in hostility
a deep-seated ill will
enmity had existed between the two families for generations
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Recent Examples of enmity
In this case, Jones earned the enmity coming his way from the team’s fans.
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Michael Silver, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2025
The striking shift in tone — from enmity to friendliness — is impossible to ignore.
—Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
Gaza played host to the conflict’s multiple historical layers of enmity, rage, and revenge.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Even though Moscow and Beijing are now closely aligned, it would be shortsighted to presume this alignment will be enduring given their past enmity and the potential for a future breakup.
—Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
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Michael Silver, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2025
The striking shift in tone — from enmity to friendliness — is impossible to ignore.
—Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
Gaza played host to the conflict’s multiple historical layers of enmity, rage, and revenge.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Even though Moscow and Beijing are now closely aligned, it would be shortsighted to presume this alignment will be enduring given their past enmity and the potential for a future breakup.
—Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enmity
Noun
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When faced with Laura’s hostility, what can Cherry do but lose her mind, smash a glass against her head, and tell Daniel that his mother did it?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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The conflict between Israel and Palestine was dividing friends, sparking tensions, and fueling rising acts of hostility.—
Rchin Bari,
Boston Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Darkly funny and deeply melancholic, the film turns the family estate into a pressure cooker of grief, grudges and reluctant affection.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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After Abe’s assassination in 2022 by a suspect who said he was motivated by a grudge against the church, an internal survey in the LDP later found that nearly half of the party’s members had links to it.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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Foreign perpetrators have been linked to previous acts intended to incite hatred.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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The left is always, at all times and places, a violent phenomenon full of hatred.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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Regarding her own father, former Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, there is such entrenched bitterness, and this situation makes any reconciliation far from likely.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The biggest casualty, says Srivastava, will be the goodwill between India and the United States, built after decades of bitterness over Washington's support of India's adversaries like Pakistan.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Enmity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enmity. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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