animosity
nounStrong hostility or resentment toward someone.
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Clear all filtersStrong hostility or resentment toward someone.
Strong hostility or ill will toward someone or something.
A strong feeling of dislike or aversion.
A strong hope or ambition for future achievement.
Strongly disinclined or opposed to something.
A strong dislike that creates a wish to avoid something.
Strongly interested in books or learning, sometimes more than in practical experience.
So appealing or interesting that it strongly holds attention.
Strongly holding attention
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Providing a release of strong or pent-up emotions.
To express strong disapproval or issue a formal reprimand.
To force or strongly persuade someone to act.
Strongly persuasive or holding close attention.
Strongly persuasive
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Strong enough to settle a question or remove reasonable doubt.
To combine or strengthen into a more stable whole.
Make stronger
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A strong feeling that someone or something is unworthy of respect.
Deserving scorn or strong disapproval.
A firmly held belief.
A strongly held false belief or misleading impression.
False belief or impression
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To condemn openly and strongly.
To strongly disapprove of or deeply regret.
To regard with strong contempt or intense dislike.
Not influenced by strong emotion or personal bias.
Very hungry or strongly eager to consume or acquire.
Strong ill will, antagonism, or active opposition.
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