hostility
IPA: hɑstˈɪɫʌti
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
- (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
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Examples of "hostility" in Sentences
- Legislature, and what he called a hostility to public education.
- The notion that government neutrality equates to government hostility is absurd.
- From the time MacDonald was admitted, his family felt that they had "to beg" staff to treat him, only to be met with what they described as "hostility".
- Jim asks, "If this hostility is anywhere near the typical Internet experience, is it any wonder that computing and IT are increasingly losing the women?"
- The argument that police hostility is more prevalent with African-Americans may be true to some extent, but this situation was clearly provoked and the outcome was inevitable.
- Separating church and state is not an expression of hostility to religion, but instead affirms the lessons that history teaches about the importance of government being strictly secular.
- Israel strategically has a choice of attacking these ships and risking hostility from the EU (in the form of cancelled Israeli arms orders) and the US (in the form of delayed/restructured/reduced aid), or they give up on the blockade.
- Two lawyers who formerly worked in the department's Voting Rights section have described what they called hostility from senior officials and career attorneys to pursuing accusations under the Voting Rights Act of minorities harassing white voters.
- We have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to examine, in Earth terms, the roles of good and evil in a man -- his negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence, and his positive side, which Earth people express as compassion,
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