animus
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Either way, radicalism and animus replace knowledge and wisdom.
"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
Collins, the attorney for Grubb, said this wasn’t a case motivated by racial animus.
Private emails made public through Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against Fox revealed the level of animus that company founder Rupert Murdoch holds for the former president.
From Washington Post
The circuit court agreed that “substantial evidence” pointed to the conclusion that “union animus motivated the complaint, the investigation and the decision to terminate Ortiz.”
From New York Times
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