hostile
Example Sentences
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What about the ubiquitous cellphones, with which members of the public—sometimes hostile to the cops—record police actions?
Beale’s attempt to modernize Lloyd’s culture and technology provoked a “complete backlash right from the beginning,” including a stream of hostile emails and letters, she said.
“The Committee is deeply concerned” that Berkeley Unified is “failing to uphold its obligations” to “end any harassment, eliminate any hostile environment and its effects and prevent any harassment from recurring.”
From Los Angeles Times
By presenting malicious tasks as routine security work, they manipulated Claude into executing attack components without recognizing the broader hostile context.
And while Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers were predictably hostile to curbing fossil fuels, China stayed quiet and concentrated on doing deals.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
