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Latent hostility   /lˈeɪtənt hɑstˈɪləti/   Listen
Latent hostility

noun
1.
Feelings of hostility that are not manifest.  Synonym: tension.  "The diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions"






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"Latent hostility" Quotes from Famous Books



... witnessed the affair, took a radically contrary view, which everyone else not of the Leddy partisanship readily accepted. Despite the frequency of Jack's visits to the Ewold garden and all the happy exchange of pleasantries with his hosts, the community could not escape the thought of a certain latent hostility toward Jack on the part of the Doge, the more noticeable because it was so out of keeping ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer

... he stopped her. She tried a third time. His manner was all courtesy and consideration, not the shade of a change. But she began to feel a latent hostility. Instinctively she knew that he would no longer help her, that he would leave her to her own resources, and judge her by how she acquitted herself. She made a blunder of ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips

... rather by acuteness and fastidiousness than by candour and placability. The enemies of the Church would argue rather with a view to her destruction than to her purification; and, on the other hand, her friends would gloss over her imperfections through fear that her opponents had some latent hostility, which the least concession on their part ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West

... themselves in the stormy politics of the country. Northern Abyssinia was now divided into two camps, the one, Amhara and Ras Ali, under Protestant British, and the other, Tigre and Ubie, under Roman Catholic French, influence. The latent hostility between the two factions threatened at one time to develop into a religious war, but no serious campaigns took place until Kassa (later Theodore) appeared on ...
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