(n.) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
(n.) A state of opposition; hostility.
Example Sentences:
(1) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
(2) Their mutual enmity toward the West would in the end triumph over any scruples of that nature, as we see graphically in Iraq today.
(3) When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know.” Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s No.1 Enemy is published on 5 February by Transworld Out in the cold: Vladimir Putin’s biggest enemies 1 Barack Obama Putin’s enmity towards Obama is ideological rather than personal.
(4) It’s an incredibly scary feeling when you’re exposed to anyone’s raw feelings and enmity.
(5) This travel ban will instigate enmity and grudge between the two nations,” he said.
(6) Cameron's move promptly earned him the enmity of the centre-right powerbrokers in the EU, notably Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
(7) The sectarian enmity that festered during the war years has been reignited by the war in Syria, which pitches a Sunni majority against an Alawite minority with links to Shia Islam .
(8) The ayatollah offered his gift as a "symbolic action to serve as a reminder of the importance of valuing human beings, of peaceful coexistence, of cooperation and mutual support, and avoidance of hatred, enmity and blind religious prejudice".
(9) His dalliance during the 1990s with Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir has left a lasting enmity with many leaders in the Dinka community, South Sudan's largest tribe, from which Kiir hails.
(10) The Polish PM added: “Some leaders in Europe believe that everything and anything can be bought with money and I said that that is not our opinion last night.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tusk to Polish government: ‘Be careful of the bridges you burn’ Szydło, whose rightwing Eurosceptic Law and Justice party has nursed a long and bitter enmity with Tusk , nominated a rival candidate for European council president but did not receive any support from the rest of the EU.
(11) The normalisation of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba ends decades of enmity that reached their nadir of at the height of the cold war.
(12) In her latest book, Family Breakdown: Helping Children to Hang on to Both Parents , to be published in June, she advocates two enmity-free households, working together, to make the best of a bad job for children when their parents opt to go their separate ways.
(13) He shared his mentor's foreign policy goals and his enmity of Islamists.
(14) For years on both sides of the ocean, groups of hardliners have tried to present to their people unrealistic and fearful images of various nations and cultures in order to turn their differences into disagreements, their disagreements into enmities and their enmities into fears,” he said in a statement in the New York Times .
(15) There's the enmity between husband and wife flung together in a loveless marriage expressed in a series of caustic asides to the audience, and the idiocy of Lord Are, who bears all the hallmarks of the fops Restoration audiences loved to laugh at.
(16) I entered Germany with a feeling of enmity, disgust at what they’d done during the war, but I soon realised they were no different to any other nation.
(17) You can't overstate the enmity between the two parties, and Gordon Brown has personally devoted much of his political career trying to beat the nationalists into the ground.
(18) Erdoğan, speaking in the eastern city of Gaziantep, said that a ground operation was needed to defeat Isis – sidestepping accusations that he is unwilling to allow Kurds in Turkey to help their embattled kinfolk in Syria or to deploy the army across the border to fight Isis because of the country’s historic enmity towards Kurdish separatists – in addition to ongoing peace negotiations with them.
(19) But Seagal’s outspoken support for Putin and his policies have earned the enmity of the Ukrainian authorities.
(20) Explaining the motives for stirring up old enmities, Cercas tells the old man: “I just want to talk to you for a while, so I can tell what really happened, or your version of what happened.
Grudge
Definition:
(v. t.) To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects.
(v. t.) To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
(v. i.) To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.
(v. i.) To feel compunction or grief.
(n.) Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel.
(n.) Slight symptom of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(2) Governor Phil Bryant only offered a grudging acceptance of the order, saying the court had overreached into states’ rights and was “certainly out of step with the majority of Mississippians”.
(3) The praise from supporters of other clubs and some commentators was grudging and qualified.
(4) Consider their peerless dead parrot sketch which, in many people's memories, ends when Cleese does his huge rant, and Palin grudgingly offers to replace the bird.
(5) On a personal level, no one could grudge Snodgrass his hat-trick in Malta after the kneecap injury that earlier disrupted his career and international journey.
(6) The doomsday scenario privately discussed at both party conferences so far was the grudging election of a largest party of whichever flavour, but without the majority or mandate to fight its way out of a paper bag.
(7) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
(8) It's a belated recognition of this verdict that has spurred a new debate on the centre-right, with pragmatists from influential skills minister Matthew Hancock to key players at the Daily Telegraph moving beyond grudging acceptance of the existence of the minimum wage to making a more full-throated case for strengthening it.
(9) I feel that if this doesn't happen this situation will lead to discord and grudge."
(10) The view of most people I've talked to is that he's improved the paper and there is a grudging respect for what he's done among what I would call the literati of US journalism."
(11) Despite the irony of being an arch-scandaliser who found himself out-scandalised, Brenton doesn't bear a grudge.
(12) But infiltrators are not the only, or indeed the main problem; around three-quarters of the killings are prompted by personal grudges, the Nato-led mission to Afghanistan estimates.
(13) The other 200 or so Tory MPs who supported the prime minister did so grudgingly, Downing Street has been told.
(14) Female Tory MPs, struggling to be heard by sections of their party, speak with grudging admiration of Cooper's skill in sounding like someone who earns a relatively low wage and uses the night bus rather than a highly educated career politician.
(15) She is very bad in the afternoons, she says and tasks that bore her, like letter-writing and paperwork, are only grudgingly and belatedly attended to.
(16) While Mancunian hostilities resume at Old Trafford, and Roy Keane leads United against City, Haaland will be at home in his west Yorkshire village nursing a bad knee and an even worse grudge.
(17) There is no common thread, little evidence of infiltration and the majority of such attacks are the result of personal grudges.
(18) However gravely his voice, he is also thin-skinned and notorious for holding grudges , and I suspect that even his glad-handing of the Tea Party is merely in service of a larger goal: getting Liz elected.
(19) As a result, both governments could propose short-term reductions in pensions, unemployment benefit, wider welfare benefits and public sector wages as part of the package and get grudging acceptance.
(20) This condition had been grudgingly accepted by Yemen's official opposition parties, though the protesters on the streets, together with international human rights organisations, found it abhorrent.