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Inimical

Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.

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Hostile 84% connected

Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupi…

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Hostile 84% connected

Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupi…

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Unfriendly 92% connected

Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adversary noun · 78% connection

One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an oppon…

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Adverse adjective · 78% connection

In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adver…

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Belligerence noun · 78% connection

a natural disposition to be hostile

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Board noun · 78% connection

A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or…

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Chase verb · 78% connection

An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private proper…

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Descent noun · 78% connection

Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

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Discountenance noun · 78% connection

Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.

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Distemper verb · 78% connection

Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.

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Enemy noun · 78% connection

One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a pe…

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Enmity noun · 78% connection

The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

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Esoteric adjective · 78% connection

Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of follower…

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Fame noun · 78% connection

Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washingto…

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Foe noun · 78% connection

One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.

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Friend noun · 78% connection

One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be as…

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Hostility noun · 78% connection

a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"

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Hostilize verb · 78% connection

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

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Implicate verb · 78% connection

To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates man…

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Job verb · 78% connection

To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

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