(a.) Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.
(n.) An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of their most cherished objectives, such as parliamentary reform, have been left as roadkill by the juggernauts of Tory and Labour hostility.
(2) Mars is a much more hostile environment than people realise, they point out.
(3) It's an attractive idea, and yet pride in Europe appears to be giving way to populism and hostility within the union.
(4) But even among the most hostile voters, only a third put Europe among the most crucial issues facing the country.
(5) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(6) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
(7) Overall, these results suggest that future research should investigate variables in addition to hostility in regard to risk for and protection from CHD.
(8) As important, if not more so, as his ambition to make exams tougher is his hostility towards other measures of ability, such as course work and controlled assessments.
(9) Journalists are being told to speak to public affairs office, but the public affairs office doesn't call them back or is hostile."
(10) Green groups were hostile or reacted cautiously to the report.
(11) To assess physiological and psychological states accompanying anabolic-androgenic steroid use, male weight lifters 1) were interviewed regarding their physical training and the patterns and effects of any drug use; 2) completed a written physical and medical history questionnaire, a Profile of Mood States questionnaire, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory; and 3) were physically examined, including a blood sample and urinalysis.
(12) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
(13) Murdoch had one on his, of course, but because he was facing hostile interrogation he looked (unfairly) as if he were wearing it in self-protection as a symbol of his own virtue.
(14) Tory MEP Nirj Deva was one of several deputies to subject Mr Nielson to hostile questioning.
(15) Yet, the long list of allegations included no statement from Kenneth Bae, other than claims that he confessed and didn't want an attorney present during his sentencing last week for what Pyongyang called hostile acts against the state.
(16) We are effectively now placed in co-sovereignty with a hostile power.
(17) The inquiry’s chairman, Sir Thayne Forbes, a former high court judge, concluded in 2014 that the most serious claims were “deliberate lies, reckless speculation and ingrained hostility”.
(18) Faced with ever growing hostility to the EU, and to immigration, Clegg has decided to present the Liberal Democrats unambiguously as the party of "in" and of openness.
(19) The aim of this study was to determine how individual differences in cynical hostility and defensiveness interacted with situational demands to affect cardiovascular responses in a natural setting.
(20) The Saudis and other Gulf states still support rebel fighting formations – as much because of inertia and hostility to Iran as anything else – but western backing is on a downward trajectory as concerns mount about the risks of blowback from al-Qaida-linked groups.
Warlike
Definition:
(a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
(a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.
Example Sentences:
(1) You fight a dirty war with innovations.” Rawat expressed frustration about the pressures faced by his soldiers, required to police their own citizens in an environment the Indian government has described as “warlike”.
(2) There is relief in South Korea that people who have heard little or nothing about their loved ones will at last meet, and that the North's threats and warlike rhetoric have died down, but there is also wariness and deep mistrust.
(3) This exemption is granted when an individual dies while serving in the armed forces, provided they were either “on active service against an enemy” or “on other service of a warlike nature, or which, in the opinion of the Treasury, involved the same risks as service of a warlike nature”.
(4) Consecutive memorial directors have referred to the institution's 1980 Act, stipulating that they must tell the story of "wars and war-like operations in which Australians have been on active service, including the events leading up to, and the aftermath of, such wars and warlike operations".
(5) The story of the United Kingdom, the story that should shape the current debate but hasn’t thus far, is one of relentless English expansion – sometimes peaceful and sometimes warlike – at the expense of the non-English nations of the Britannic archipelago.
(6) "It seems a shame to deprive ordinary people of that just because the maharishi considers our government bellicose and warlike."
(7) The G8 statement was released amid the first signs that all parties were edging away from the warlike rhetoric of recent weeks.
(8) Jesus Camp is "a sarcastic documentary that paints evangelical, fundamentalist, charismatic, and politically concerned Christians as very shrill, warlike and dangerous," a critic wrote on the Christian website MovieGuide.org .
(9) The weak-willed Henry VI is markedly different from his father, grandfather, and son who were all valiant, warlike, and brave.
(10) Was Lieutenant James Patrick killed during “warlike” service, or did his death occur during a “routine” training exercise?
(11) The announcement comes as tensions eased after weeks of warlike threats between North and South Korea, including vows of nuclear strikes from the North.
(12) It’s a film which playfully toyed with the perceived homoeroticism of the male-warrior culture: depicting the Spartans as brave, warlike and noble, but the Persians as in thrall to an effeminate and contemptible king: Xerxes.
(13) Up to 100 people from two tribes of warlike Huaorani Indians live there in voluntary isolation and, within a kilometre of where we are standing, it has been estimated, live 150 frog, 120 reptile, 600 bird and 200 mammal species, including nearly 100 species of bat.
(14) Pirgos Mavromichali, Limeni Pirgos Mavromichali, Limeni The "Tower of Mavromichali" is the old family stronghold of Petrobey Mavromichalis (or Black Michael) one of the semi-autonomous rulers of the warlike Mani region during Turkish occupation in the 19th century.
(15) He came into office pledging to seek a diplomatic deal with Iran over its nuclear programme, an approach that contrasted with the warlike rhetoric of the Bush administration.
(16) "I wouldn't say we're stupid, but we Chechens are more warlike than other nations, and have allowed our warrior instinct and ourselves to be exploited."
(17) On its website, the SPVA explains that if a serving or former member of the armed forces dies from – or their death can be shown to have been "hastened by" – an injury sustained or disease contracted on active service against the enemy "or other service of a warlike nature" (such as operations against hostile forces in peace time or anti-terrorist operations), a complete exemption from inheritance tax can be granted to their estate under the provisions of section 154 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984.
(18) Peter Ramsauer, chairman of the German parliament’s economics committee, also talked about the “economic warlike traits” of the US approach.
(19) the existence of the peaceful and the warlike ege as 'doubles'), producing a multiple personality in which the formation of the ego ideal, moulded by themes of terror, threatens to exert a transgenerational influence owing to a superego identification with the Nazi aspects of the father, while the 'borrowed guilt' from the father corresponds to a melancholic identification; the regressive concretization in the form of a transitory delusion also belongs to the context of the latter.
(20) The concept of coping is firmly embedded in warlike connotations.