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internecine

adjective as in involving conflict within a group

adjective as in mutually harmful

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The 97th Academy Awards arrive Sunday after a film season full of wild momentum swings, online trolling and internecine whisper campaigns.

But for all of his newfound fame and fortune, the internecine conflicts of the L.A. streets haunted him.

Elon Musk won yet another internecine GOP brawl and proved that he has the next president of the United States firmly under his thumb.

From Salon

The rebel factions have a history of division and internecine fighting.

From BBC

While Rome was riven by “internecine strife” and Britain ran its empire on a shoestring budget, the U.S. was “constitutionally stable” with “an enormous industrial base.”

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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