(v. t.) Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each case, Ottawa would be constitutionally forced to oppose, thus leading to further animosity and, Marois must assume, an increased perception that the federal government is acting against Quebec's interests.
(2) There is evidence for the animosity the document cites around the country in myriad small protests.
(3) A peace deal between Mr Arafat and Mr Sharon was always unlikely due to the long-standing animosity between them.
(4) When my wife said she was the Shaq to my Kobe, what she really meant to say is that she compliments me and makes me whole, hopefully without the animosity.
(5) The two have a history of animosity from their time in Spain, when Mourinho was the Real Madrid manager and Guardiola in charge of Barcelona, but Mourinho has said that it would not make sense for either of them to focus on each other.
(6) An Islamist-dominated Congress will find it extremely difficult to reach a negotiated settlement with Jathran, given his renowned animosity to the Muslim Brotherhood."
(7) In a bitter campaign marked by personal animosity, Nasheed - a Sunni Muslim – was said to be spreading Christianity in the Islamic nation via his links with Britain's Conservative party.
(8) "They marched in spite of animosity, oppression and brutality because they believed in the greatness of what this nation could become and despaired of the founding promises not kept," he said.
(9) The perception of the Chelsea striker in Spain, after switching allegiances from Brazil , his country of birth, in 2013, has never been wholly positive and there remains some animosity between him and sections of the Spanish press.
(10) Indeed, some might say that this is desperate stuff, an overt attempt to stir up public fear and animosity towards striking medics.
(11) Britain’s Katie Swan makes semi-finals of girls’ singles in Australian Open Read more There is no history of animosity between the players.
(12) With just over four weeks to go until polling day, the animosity between the two lead rivals in the race to become the next mayor of London exploded into the open as they came face to face for their third joint hustings of the campaign.
(13) Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, had pushed in recent months for reconciliation with Hamas, despite differences and animosity.
(14) But do you enjoy that adversity - do you feed off the animosity?
(15) Animosity has intensified after last year’s mass pro-democracy protests , exacerbating the culture clash between Chinese tourists and Hong Kong citizens.
(16) If the result is yes, he will also have earned the animosity of the other residents of the UK who were given no opportunity to participate in a decision that affects all of us.
(17) Labour has always been split on electoral reform, and for the moment the ranks of the naysayers are swelled by intense animosity to coalition government as currently practised, and towards the Lib Dems in particular.
(18) Although personal animosity plays a part, he and the Vote Leave leadership are also divided over strategy, with Banks and Leave.EU much more committed to campaigning on immigration.
(19) Alternative für Deutschland – the first far-right populist party in Germany to enjoy sustained electoral success since the second world war – is only the latest in a series of symptoms of a widespread animosity toward the postwar liberal consensus.
(20) He insisted he held no bitterness or animosity towards Israelis as individuals – for who they are – only for what he said Israeli policies had done to Palestinians.
Prejudice
Definition:
(n.) Foresight.
(n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.
(n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
(n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
(n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.
(n.) To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) What is Obama doing about the prejudice and violence faced by brown people here at home?
(2) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
(3) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(4) Irrational fear, anxiety and prejudice are not less common among health professionals than in the community generally; they require attention in HIV-related educational programs.
(5) Political policy is based on swivel-eyed assumptions and prejudices, rather than the world, evidence, the reality of suffering, the reality of global warming.
(6) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(7) There was none of the prejudice found in much of the British press, just acceptance that it was part of the town’s civic duty to share in helping with a European-wide problem.
(8) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
(9) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(10) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
(11) The MPs also reject weakening the FoI law on the release of information that would prejudice collective ministerial responsibility, or inhibit the frank exchange of views within the government.
(12) Two unfortunate factors influencing the choice of drugs for clinical trial have been prejudice from the physician and commercial interests.
(13) The possible reasons for this, apart from poverty and malnutrition, are ignorance, fear and prejudice in availing themselves of public health services and reliance on bomohs and handiwomen and fatalism.
(14) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(15) Inequality, precarity and social division are the causes of our new callousness, helped by the rightwing press, but the real point is that Labour has only two choices in response: either continue to cringe before the prejudices of the public or try to change their minds by arguing for a distinct, simple and compelling alternative.
(16) And even tell them what they don't like to hear – that they bring prejudice and double standards in our own situation."
(17) Prejudice against the condom and a gap in the STOP AIDS campaign reasoning are considered as possible grounds for the resistance to the recommended condom protection.
(18) Therapists have been advised to become familiar with and sensitive to such characteristics and their manifestations and to be honest with themselves and patients about their prejudices (Sue et al.
(19) They demonstrate, at worst, a cavalier prejudice against work that the correspondents deemed shoddy.
(20) IN ORDER THAT ASIAN AMERICANS BE MORE ADEQUATELY PROVIDED WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO: (1) have a thorough educational campaign over a long period of time to help Asians overcome their negative prejudices against mental illness, (2) devise culturally relevant diagnostic techniques, and (3) have treatment consonant with the cultural backgrounds of the patients and befitting the role expectations of the patients.