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enmity

en muh tee

  • n  a state of deep-seated ill-will
  • n  the feeling of a hostile person

  • Girded against the enmity of the Palestinians who surround them, the settlers carry on.
  • How else does one explain the enduring enmity toward Guy Fawkes, a conspirator in a plot to blow up Parliament in 1605? Some four centuries after Fawkes was caught, tortured and .
  • Aung Gyi earned the enmity of Brigadier Tin Pe, a Marxist theorist and a key member of the Revolutionary Council.
News & Articles

  • Egypt Brotherhood backs Syria jihad, denounces Shi'ites
    By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood blamed Shi'ites for creating religious strife throughout Islam's history, as the movement joined a call by Sunni clerics for jihad against the Syrian government and its Shi'ite allies. In a striking display of the religious enmity sweeping the region since Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah committed its forces behind Syrian ...
    June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Mahmoud Othman in Washington Post
    The timing may seem a little tricky after what Bush said,Othman, a Kurd, said in a telephone interview. "But our interests differ from those of the United States. The enmity between the United States and Syria and Iran doesn't benefit the...
  • John Adams in Telegraph.co.uk
    He reminded his audience at Cairo University that John Adams, one of America's founding fathers, wrote that "the United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquillity of Muslims".
  • Sonny Rollins in Forbes
    I'm sure I attracted the enmity of a lot of concert promoters ...... by doing this,said Rollins. "But after all this is America and if we can do it ourselves and make it a success, why that's how America was made. ...... It's a good step I...

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