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enmity

[en-mi-tee] / ˈɛn mɪ ti /


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Not a single vendor I spoke to expressed any enmity toward Latinos, or even Gallardo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

For white people who felt no enmity toward their fellow man, but who believed they were paying for the sins of their fathers, he was hope.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Lee, a veteran labour activist and a witness to the 1989 crackdown, told the court in March he felt no enmity towards the Communist Party and hoped it would reform.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

But the enmity between the two sides is likely to endure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which' we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

His father was killed at the bitter end of the war, fighting for Marshal Tito, the leader who managed to knit together the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia and suppress simmering enmities.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

As music “that transcended enmities to forge a connection between all the people born of this land,” Vargas Llosa writes, channeling Toño’s enthusiasm, the vals is the exemplary art form of a “mongrel nation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

But its removal lit up social media, rekindling historic enmities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2025

However, ECA chief executive Charlie Marshall feels the old enmities have to be set aside.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2023

It was a “world criss-crossed by numerous patron-client relationships and family ties, in which major centers vied with one another in enmities that could endure for centuries.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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