half-hostile

I finally managed to change her half-hostile puzzlement into humored puzzlement.

Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

Christian creed by the avowed enemies or the only half-hostile critics of the Church, which the champions of Scripture truth have not been backward to repel.

Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling

To dig, to plough, to sow, to reap, are instances of the means whereby man has applied intelligent control to his half-friendly, half-hostile environment.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

She paused and looked at their still half-hostile faces.

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

Man's particular equipment of instincts survived in "the struggle for existence" precisely because they were practical, because they did help the human creature to maintain his equilibrium in a half-friendly, half-hostile environment.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

For the three days he had me on board he did not depart from that half-hostile attitude.

The Shadow Line 1917

Was it something to feel the voluptuous and abominable beauty of that rhythm going out of her flesh, beat by beat, and entering into the flesh of those astounded and half-hostile watchers?

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Louis of Anjou; the pope, obstinate and intractable, continued in a half-hostile, half-dependent, attitude towards Charles, and created fourteen cardinals, only the Neapolitans accepting the dignity.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

She flung him a glance, half-hostile, half-awed, as she went through.

Greatheart 1910

"You and Young Cal have been sort of half-hostile," he said.

The Settling of the Sage 1910