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Hostile   /hˈɑstəl/  /hɑstˈaɪl/   Listen
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



... of the repertoire was widened in 1903 by the inclusion of plays by Lady Gregory, Mr. Colum, and Synge. "Twenty-five" could give offense to none in its story of self-sacrificing love, and Mr. Colum's "Broken Soil," coming as it did after "In the Shadow of the Glen," would have escaped hostile criticism in such a situation even had it been much more severe in its portrayal of peasant life in ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt

... questions made to her, and her answers, at this trial at Poitiers, during her trial at Rouen; and they would probably have thrown much light on the obscure passages of her early years, for at Poitiers she had not to guard against hostile inquisition, and, doubtless, gave her questioners a full and free ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower

... famous line: "The desire for destruction is at the same time a creative desire."[12] This article appeared in the Deutsche Jahrbuecher, in which publication he soon became a collaborator. The authorities, however, were hostile to the paper, and he went into Switzerland in 1843, only to be driven later to Paris. There he made the acquaintance of Proudhon, "the father of anarchism," and spent days and nights with him discussing the problems of government, ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter

... parties adopts this principle, and so he yields to the other; but if both adopt it, then there is sometimes a little discussion, each insisting on giving up to the other. But such a dispute is a friendly dispute, not a hostile one, and it is very ...
— Forests of Maine - Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge • Jacob S. Abbott

... and now that she was fallen, proffering unloved caresses to the wife who had spurned him in prosperity. The sore spots upon his vanity began to burn; once more, his anger assumed the carriage of a hostile generosity; he would utterly forgive indeed; he would help, save, and comfort his unloving wife; but all with distant self-denial, imposing silence on his heart, respecting Seraphina's disaffection as he would the innocence of a ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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