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Sentence count:254+10Posted:2017-02-01Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: amitySimilar words: hostileutilityfertilityfertility rateagilityabilityhumilityviabilityMeaning: [hɑ'stɪlətɪ /hɒ's-]  n. 1. a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition 2. a state of deep-seated ill-will 3. the feeling of a hostile person 4. violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked. 
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61. The verdict may worsen racial hostility.
62. Many coalition schemes were wrecked by Unionist hostility, yet Unionists also complained when the government then changed course.
63. Their hostility was directed almost entirely against their fellow countrymen.
64. A taunting, chill laughter toward which he was meant to react with hostility.
65. It was violation of the ability-to-pay principle that caused much of the public hostility to the poll tax.
66. Black efforts to improve their circumstances were met with hostility and suspicion, and finally, open aggression.
67. Their varied and imaginative tactics grew out of a strong collective identity developed in the face of the hostility they encountered from management.
68. Hostility and rigidity are particularly problematic because they seldom deliver the desired result over the long term.
69. Why should their disciples attack a Church which showed so little hostility to them?
70. This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench, but Wigg's hostility was not evenly spread. Sentencedict.com
71. Assimilation is consequently difficult, particularly as the minority groups experience considerable hostility.
72. Despite the Hinduism of most Tamils and the Buddhism of most Sinhalese, they coexisted for those two millennia without much hostility.
73. Asked to deal with the unexpected, usually without must advance notice, people often react with apprehension or hostility.
74. Given his open hostility, it seemed pointless to try and continue to persuade him.
75. Instead he used the choice to reinforce his hostility to change.
76. As governments, both have faced hostility from a powerful neighbour.
77. He could feel reserve, even hostility, coming towards him as real as the smell of roasting meat.
78. Increases its hostility towards, and decreases interaction with, the enemy.
79. There is no hostility between the staff and us and it makes school life so much easier.
80. But they also told these stories because they felt so disturbed by the alienation and hostility of some black students.
81. Jane's relationship with her had begun in mistrust and hostility.
82. As an exercise, it was valuable for Glass even if it aroused a great deal of hostility.
83. The increasing hostility to affirmative action has rubbed off on the diversity movement.
84. They generated a lot of hostility as well as admiration.
85. Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race.
86. He was looking at the man, not with hostility, not with severity, but with a look full of grace.
87. Identification with the community is even consistent with hostility to its laws, if those are thought to be oppressive or unfair.
88. Its consequences are hostility to the strong state and vanguard party and sympathy with pluralism and perhaps forms of anarchism.
89. Mr Broady painted a frightening picture of considerable violence and a fair amount of popular hostility to the police.
90. Competition and struggle may be the watchwords but this does not necessarily imply outright hostility.
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