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).
Random good picture Not show
181. He didn't seem in the least put-out by the hostile reception.
182. He says that the bid is hostile because it goes over the heads of the directors.
183. Against a panoramic backdrop, we see orphaned P.K. growing up in a hostile environment.
184. Her first impressions, she supposed, had been gained merely from his hostile attitude at the fountain.
185. But the pair, openly hostile by the end of last year, will patch up their mutual differences.
186. However, because a Court Scheme requires the co-operation of the target it is not a viable alternative to a hostile bid.
187. There are times when it seems that only hostile forces exist, that no helpful ones are about.
188. Her friendly enquiry as to the whereabouts of the Red House was met by a hostile stare from the woman behind the counter.
189. For example, if the sale is a demerger or unbundling process used to counter a hostile bid, timing will be critical.
190. These conditions embraced the realities of survival in an often hostile environment, and the mysteries of birth and death.
191. The high-handed way in which Washington dropped the idea on its Western partners accounts for some the hostile reaction it has received.
192. This material was hostile to life yet also greedy for life and jealous of life.
193. The feistier sort of Republican is as hostile to big government by indirect means as to the direct variety.
194. They became bossy , uncooperative and hostile in their efforts to ward off depression.
195. They were two women together now in a hostile world.
195. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
196. A hostile audience refused to listen to Senator Drummond's reply.
197. The latter are perceived to provide a hostile physical and social environment.
198. Not surprisingly, relations between the two black communities are often hostile.
199. Many of the smaller cities are openly hostile toward the City of Los Angeles.
200. Otherwise, architecture was largely reduced to stubby tower-tops, inky and indigo,[sentencedict.com] from which hostile fire poured.
201. The belief that technics must replace politics makes technocrats sceptical about and even hostile towards politicians and political institutions.
202. Fund management launched a $ 3.9-billion hostile takeover bid -- an unprecedented move in a generally cozy industry.
203. Many of the animals are hostile to humans: for example, poisonous snakes and fierce mountain cats.
204. Even those hostile found the play's closeness to music hall to be its strength.
205. My ears flamed, my small dark hostile eyes were awash.
206. Local people are hostile towards the plan, which would involve a significant tax increase.
207. In this hostile ideological jungle, little clearings of socialist culture had to be created painfully.
208. While she appeared to be confused and helpless, she was also hostile.
209. Round one to Morlands ... brewery fight off hostile takeover.
210. But as her relationship with Eric deepened, he'd grown wary, sometimes openly hostile.