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hostility
/hɑˈstɪlɪti/
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What does hostility mean?
noun
- The state of being hostile.
- A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
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IPA pronunciation
/hɑˈstɪlɪti/
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The 6 million Russians in the republic, formerly the favored class, now face the hostility of a society dominated by Muslims.
Pius IX, with all his geniality, seems to have allowed his hostility to voluntary associations to carry him very far at times.
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The hostility of all smaller birds makes the moral character of the row, for all his deaconlike demeanor and garb, somewhat questionable.
None of them knew anything, and Pétya thought the officers were beginning to look at him and Dólokhov with hostility and suspicion.
This place had always been her refuge, but there was a hostility in the house now which this door could not shut out.