animadversion

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So what is it, exactly, that fuels the animadversion against Martin Amis?

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2020

This may have been the animadversion of a man who hated them both.

From Time Magazine Archive

Later the conference re-elected Bishop Cannon, despite considerable animadversion, to the board of Temperance and Social Service.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Poppycock," was the virtual animadversion passed by U. S. Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps.

From Time Magazine Archive

The part he took in the Middlesex election drew upon him many attacks as well as a severe animadversion from the caustic pen of “Junius.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various