Synonym: aggressive, antagonistic, belligerent, bitter, militant, unfavorable, unfriendly. Antonym: amiable, favorable, friendly. Similar words: host, tile, ghost, hostage, still, whose, those, until. Meaning: ['hɑstl /'hɒstaɪl] 
n. troops belonging to the enemy's military forces. adj. 1. characterized by enmity or ill will 2. not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally 3. very unfriendly 4. impossible to bring into friendly accord 5. very unfavorable to life or growth 6. marked by features that oppose constructive treatment or development 7. unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business).
n. troops belonging to the enemy's military forces. adj. 1. characterized by enmity or ill will 2. not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally 3. very unfriendly 4. impossible to bring into friendly accord 5. very unfavorable to life or growth 6. marked by features that oppose constructive treatment or development 7. unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business). 
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91. I have not found the media to be hostile to us, provided we talk to them.
92. Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia 
93. We were a besieged party in a hostile camp, and it drew us together.
94. Shareholders can protect themselves from hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts by not agreeing to sell their shareholdings at a discount.
95. The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid.
96. Its area is a tiny fraction of that occupied by the 21 hostile Arab states.
97. But when a camera crew arrived at the rectory, they got a hostile reception.
98. They have few outside contacts and white society is uncaring and often hostile towards them.
99. His personal defects are a somewhat hostile reserve, conceit, and a narrow outlook....
100. The opposition parties had mostly been unenthusiastic, if not openly hostile, about parity legislation.
101. Sidney as a poet, therefore, understandably asserts the improving role of poetry against those hostile to literature.
102. April 1983 Generally speaking, however, family planning has met with a hostile reception.
103. They were already well within the shield zone and, had the barge been hostile, it could have inflicted untold damage.
104. The cities of Stalinvast were more like coral reefs looming above a sea of hostile jungle.
105. The boy feels hostile towards his father as he believes he is a rival for his mother's intentions.
106. On the other hand sentiment is changing the way in which hostile takeovers are regarded.
107. A hostile audience would, in minutes,(www.Sentencedict.com) change into one of sympathy and cooperation.
108. Kozyrev and Filatov were replaced by officials with views more hostile to the West.
109. In this hostile environment, there were few opportunities for townsmen to accumulate capital.
110. She has repeatedly tried to defend her husband against hostile criticism in the press.
111. In consequence, the sciences of animal behaviour and experimental psychology were founded by men deeply hostile to anthropomorphic explanations.
112. Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar, sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather.
113. Ms. Hills ran into a fusillade of hostile questions at Tuesday's committee meeting.
114. The hostile bid has infuriated board members of the Dowty group, who claim that their company is being underpriced.
115. They can be a very hostile crowd when you start teaching them, though.
116. Black faculty members also accused the university of institutional racism and creating a hostile work environment.
117. Punitive methods persistently used against a background of rejecting, hostile parental attitudes lead, in the long term, to trouble.
118. The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I, one of Britain's largest engineering firms.
119. A Ministry of Defence spokesman said there was no evidence of hostile action.
120. Then, with one short hostile look at the deputation, Lee resumed his chair.