Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: animosity
IPA transcription: [,ænəm'ɑsəti]
Pronunciations of animosity
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: animosity, animus, bad_blood
    Meaning: a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
Usage examples
  • He spoke wholly without animosity.
  • Against the crowd which environed me, however, I experienced a deep sentiment of animosity.
  • Amongst the number, two more particularly distinguished themselves for their animosity to cats.
  • "I swear," he said, with a calm brow and kindly glance, but in a voice still trembling with recent emotion, "I swear that I no longer bear animosity to those who were once my friends.
  • She cannot do better herself than to remain quiet and inactive in the affair: the long and mutual animosity between her and Sir John will make her interference merely productive of debates and ill-will.
  • Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.
  • The prophecy seemed to imply--if it implied anything--a final triumph on the part of the already more powerful house; and was of course remembered with the more bitter animosity by the weaker and less influential.
  • But the community has the right of defense and of self-protection; moreover, the community has no hatred nor animosity for the murderer: it imprisons or punishes him merely for the protection and security of others.
  • There had long prevailed in that party a secret distinction, which, though the dread of the king's power had hitherto suppressed it, yet, in proportion as the hopes of success became nearer and more immediate, began to discover itself with high contest and animosity.
  • The people were thrown into agitation; and few instances occur of more violent dissensions, excited by the most material differences in religion; or rather by the most frivolous; since it is a just remark, that the more affinity there is between theological parties, the greater commonly is their animosity.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jesus, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording William II of England, License CC BY-SA 4.0