antagonism

I can also envision that his antagonism toward reporters might extend to a variety of criminal, civil and financial investigations.

“We contracted a syndrome psychologists call irrational antagonism. That is, we split into two groups of four. A power struggle over the project’s direction made things much worse.”

He forgetfully addresses Ali as Mr. Clay, who calls him “Officer Mayberry” in return, and their antagonism provides a platform to make points about race in America.

The relationship between the TMO and its own residents was characterised by “distrust, dislike, personal antagonism and anger”.

Much of today's modern conservative movement is rooted in the business community's antagonism against the New Deal, Phillips-Fein said, which ushered in what corporate stakeholders saw as a large labor movement that threatened business interests.