animadversion
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So what is it, exactly, that fuels the animadversion against Martin Amis?
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2020
"Poppycock," was the virtual animadversion passed by U. S. Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps.
From Time Magazine Archive
This may have been the animadversion of a man who hated them both.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later the conference re-elected Bishop Cannon, despite considerable animadversion, to the board of Temperance and Social Service.
From Time Magazine Archive
It could hardly have cited a more incontrovertible line from any poem than that which it has selected for animadversion, namely,— 'We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.'
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
Vocabulary lists containing animadversion
Speak Your Mind: Anim
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The Scarlet Letter
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