animadversion
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So what is it, exactly, that fuels the animadversion against Martin Amis?
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2020
Later the conference re-elected Bishop Cannon, despite considerable animadversion, to the board of Temperance and Social Service.
From Time Magazine Archive
This may have been the animadversion of a man who hated them both.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Poppycock," was the virtual animadversion passed by U. S. Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Raymond, moreover, engaged to maintain peace throughout the land, and the routiers, or bandit mercenaries, who for fifty years had been the special objects of animadversion by the Church, were to be expelled forever.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
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Speak Your Mind: Anim
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The Scarlet Letter
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