Hostility

//hɒˈstɪlɪti//

"Hostility" in a Sentence (15 examples)

I have no personal hostility to the system.

Hostility was replaced by love.

I'm sensing a little hostility here.

I'm sensing a lot of hostility.

While Pseudo and Co. wage their war on the new site, I've been happily posting here, and reaping a few green orbs for it. During the times that I didn't get green orbs, for example on short comments that I never wanted to get rated anyway, I chose to stay quiet about it, but not because I want to show that I'm emotionally strong, or the bigger man, or anything. Of course I get upset about it. I like green! Their cyan-and-lower ratings not only bring down my average, but also look ugly on my green-themed posts. Basically, it rustles my jimmies more than a little bit. Before, as some of you know, I might have started to complain because I didn't want my comments to get downrated for something trivial. Yet now I choose not to reply because I know that what I have to say will likely be met with hostility, based on my experience with Fig Hunters.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

From the earliest days of our republic, American leaders have understood that diplomacy and engagement is preferable to conflict and hostility.

Religious, racial or national tolerance, and the ability to understand one another, are not enough to eliminate hostility and bring about justice. And wherever there is no justice, war lies dormant.

I want you to know that we don't have any hostility towards your company despite last year's mixup.

Flee from hostility.

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My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.

There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.

But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.

The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.

As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.

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