animus
Example Sentences
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Byers, who represented himself at trial, said he had no animus toward law enforcement and that it would be “out of character” for him to shoot at police.
From Los Angeles Times
She rejected suggestions such tactics could be discriminatory, saying "racial animus has no place in DHS".
From BBC
Some of the animus directed at Macaulay is based on things he really said.
Either way, radicalism and animus replace knowledge and wisdom.
"He has no apparent animus towards anyone or anything," said film and theatre director Mike Nichols, who directed the Broadway premiere of Stoppard's tale of marriage and affairs "The Real Thing".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
