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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings of dislike and hatred
abhorrence
abomination
anathema
animus
anti-Catholicism
distaste
distaste for someone/something
distastefully
enmity
execrate
misandrist
misandry
misanthrope
misanthropy
misogynist
self-hating
self-hatred
self-loathing
sore point
technophobe

animosity | American Dictionary

animosity
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌæn·əˈmɑs·ɪ·t̬i/
a strong dislike or unfriendly feeling:
[ U ]I have no animosity toward him whatsoever.

Examples of animosity

animosity
Factional differences and personal animosity appear to have mattered more than party throughout these debates.
When would it have been the most useful in cultivating desirable affiliations or quelling potential animosities between groups?
Animosity seems to have peaked in early 1957.
Both partners knew that the scheme needed a minimum uptake of care for financial viability; both partners had to deal with the tenants' 'animosity'.
This contradicts the stories of animosity towards the men returning from war, an animosity that army officers did indeed experience time and again.
Moreover, he cautioned her that her current conduct would stimulate culturally sanctioned animosity in her children.
When, in the early eighteenth century, they became more contested and then contentious, personal animosity was most often to blame.
Even though conflicts between pastoralists and farmers abound and appear inevitable, farmer-herder relations are not everywhere characterised by intense animosity.
These were especially apparent in the field of education, where there was a definite attempt to paint a veneer of respectability over animosity.
So implacable was their hatred that as the summer progressed the only question was not if, but when, this animosity drove someone to action.
Even though these radiographers had some reluctance from their medical staff, they never experienced any animosity from their departmental colleagues.
Personal animosity and stifled ambition merged with wider monastic concerns to produce an unavoidable conflict.
Undoubtedly, repression from above further aggravated movement activists' animosity toward the governing party.
For these businesses there are acute problems of coordination and of collective action even when they are not exacerbated by personal animosities.
Animosity between inmates and staff today is difficult to overstate, yet seldom does it escalate into open physical conflict.
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