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Hostile

adjective

1.

Characterized by enmity or ill will. "A hostile remark" , "Hostile actions" Antonym: amicable.

2.

Not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally. Antonym: friendly.

3.

Impossible to bring into friendly accord.

4.

Very unfavorable to life or growth. Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly. "An uncongenial atmosphere" , "An uncongenial soil" , "The unfriendly environment at high altitudes"

5.

Unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business). "Hostile tender offer" , "Hostile bid"

noun

1.

Troops belonging to the enemy's military forces. Antonym: friendly.

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"Hostile" Quotes from Famous Books

... the wall and trying to decide whether his right or left foot hurt him the more excruciatingly, became aware that a curate was standing before him, regarding him through a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez with a disapproving and hostile expression. Lord Belpher returned his gaze. Neither was favourably impressed by the other. Percy thought he had seen nicer-looking curates, and the curate thought he had ...

— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... successive Legislatures. If a majority of either party should pass this resolution, the enemy would be able to defeat its nominees for the next Legislature before the women could get the chance to vote for them. In other words, all the forces hostile to woman suffrage are already enfranchised and are experienced, active and influential in politics, while the women themselves can give no assistance, and the men in every community who favor it are very largely those who have not an aggressive political influence. This very refusal of certain ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... employed, as he told me, six amanuenses; and let it be remembered by the natives of North-Britain, to whom he is supposed to have been so hostile, that five of them were of that country. There were two Messieurs Macbean; Mr. Shiels, who we shall hereafter see partly wrote the Lives of the Poets to which the name of Cibber is affixed; Mr. Stewart, son of Mr. George Stewart, bookseller at Edinburgh; ...

— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell

... Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... life which was once so real and positive and has now become a shadow. I am of course speaking of the early days of the settlement on Strawberry Bank. They were stormy and eventful days. The dense forest which surrounded the clearing was alive with hostile red-men. The sturdy pilgrim went to sleep with his firelock at his bedside, not knowing at what moment he might be awakened by the glare of his burning hayricks and the piercing war-whoops of the Womponoags. ...

— An Old Town By The Sea • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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