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hostile
adjective as in antagonistic, mean
Strongest matches
adverse, belligerent, bitter, contentious, contrary, hateful, inhospitable, inimical, nasty, opposed, unfavorable, unfriendly, unsympathetic
Weak matches
allergic, argumentative, bellicose, competitive, disapproving, dour, ill-disposed, malevolent, malicious, malignant, oppugnant, ornery, pugnacious, rancorous, scrappy, spiteful, surly, unkind, unpropitious, unsociable, unwelcoming, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike
Example Sentences
But last month off the coast of Southern California, the ocean turned hostile after a sea lion lunged at him, bit him and dragged him off his board.
"In the past, boycotts have not lasted long and have not achieved much. It starts as a hostile reaction to some US action but tends to fade with time," he says.
It had said initially that these detained men had no rights to appeal because the president had the wartime power under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport “hostile” aliens.
In the hostile land of “The Last of Us,” survival is not just about staying alive, but making choices about what that life will look like, and mean, in the end.
Thus it is, in the United States at least, whether through merger or hostile takeover, that there is now no meaningful distinction between conservative, far-right and fascist; they are also identified with the Republican Party.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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