animus

Example Sentences

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She rejected suggestions such tactics could be discriminatory, saying "racial animus has no place in DHS".

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

"He has no apparent animus towards anyone or anything," said film and theatre director Mike Nichols, who directed the Broadway premiere of Stoppard's tale of marriage and affairs "The Real Thing".

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

I won’t quote the clips suddenly flooding social media, the apparent result of someone’s late and incompetent oppo research, of his saying things that betray to my ear an obvious animus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

You could take issue with something he wrote and then debate it and there was never any animus.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

“You found a way to transfer your animus into a machine?”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan