(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.
Unfriendly
Definition:
(a.) Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.
(a.) Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coulson said he had been on '"not unfriendly terms" with Hayman during his time at the News of the World: "I may have seen him socially, but we were not pals.
(2) Because we see a regime as unfriendly, we assume the worst motives and intentions, fuelling our perception of threat.
(3) And they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.” On Monday the Russian foreign ministry said that US-Russian relations are enduring a difficult period “because of the targeted unfriendly actions of Washington”.
(4) "Declaring the EU offices to be a legitimate attack target is more than the unfriendly act of a machine that knows no bounds and may be out of the control of politics and the courts."
(5) During the cold war, the US also employed economic sanctions to destabilise unfriendly governments, especially in Latin America, though they do not appear to have played more than a minor role, even where regime change eventually occurred.
(6) Facebook, which was targeted last year by the Greenpeace Unfriend Coal campaign, is building a new data centre in Sweden, its largest yet, to be powered by hydroelectricity.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russia cancels Turkey meeting and warns its citizens not to visit The Russian defence ministry said on its website that it considered the “actions of the Turkish air force as an unfriendly act”, adding that it was “designing a complex of measures directed to respond such incidents”.
(8) Oddly, that unfriendly-to-women aura remained in not-gay David Steel's milieu.
(9) He added: “It is nothing less than an unfriendly act which is already having a very serious impact on bilateral relations.” Natalegawa said summoning the ambassador was “not considered a light step” but was the “minimum” that could be done to “consolidate the situation”.
(10) "Hate the new website as it is so tricky to use," wrote Sarah Milford, while another customer, Kay Floyd, commented: "Refuse to shop online as the website is the most user unfriendly and awkward to navigate.
(11) Gay's the Word has survived having its stock seized on grounds of indecency by customs officers; it has been threatened by soaring rents, unfriendly council policies, and the rise of internet selling.
(12) High P scorers have been found to be cold, unfriendly, hostile, etc., and it is suggested that the lower P scores of the intravenous users may be partly due to possible hostility-reducing effects of the narcotics used by this group.
(13) This, said Kadyrov, was because Putin is a “wise, courageous, resolute Head, who managed to withstand unfriendly campaign, which is conducted by the USA and its assistants”.
(14) Liu Xiaoming more than hinted that the 11th-hour postponement was seen as an unfriendly move and that the new government risked jeopardising future relations with China more broadly.
(15) China must be aware that Palmer’s rampant rascality serves as a symbol that Australian society has an unfriendly attitude toward China.
(16) It is not, perhaps, the easiest time to become the new chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), especially with a general election on the way and the voluble, airwaves-friendly but coalition-unfriendly Clare Gerada act to follow.
(17) Having an occupant of the White House who is unfriendly towards your business is not a comfortable position,” Saunders added.
(18) This doesn’t bother me now that I’m settled in but in the beginning I was very unhappy in what I thought was a cold, unfriendly city.
(19) People often assume that budget flights are somehow more eco-unfriendly than expensive ones.
(20) "The government gave the clear impression that this had been done at the request of the Church of England … but the bishop of Leicester said: 'We didn't ask for it' … and was very upset about it because it gave the impression that the Church of England were unfriendly towards gays."