Hostile

//ˈhɒstaɪl//

"Hostile" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Everybody took a hostile attitude toward illegal aliens.

When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.

The Soviet Union took a hostile attitude toward us.

I see that I am surrounded by hostile faces.

Many of us are hostile to the consumption tax.

We got a hostile reception from the villagers.

I don't feel hostile toward you.

I met with a cool, not to say hostile, reception.

We don't feel hostile toward you.

The baby is not old enough to be capable of hostile laughter.

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a hostile force

hostile intentions

a hostile country

hostile to a sudden change

Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo! as soon as Friday, according to a published report.

The Japanese got their attack in first. About ten minutes after passing the U.S. aircraft, they spotted Hornet (local weather patterns temporarily concealing Enterprise). Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same[…]

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