Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a hostile manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a hostile manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
hostile manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps if DeMint were not fighting so vehemently and hostilely against Obama's domestic agenda, the president might not have DeMint as one of those distractions ...
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From what we've seen, a lot of people react to the apples-to-oranges thing hostilely at first (you definitely get some wacky ones), but with a little usage it starts to feel more natural.
FlickChart Makes Movie Ranking Fun | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Friends and family of the various defendants eyed Anna and Grace hostilely or hopefully as the prosecutors wheeled their briefcases through the spectator section.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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Friends and family of the various defendants eyed Anna and Grace hostilely or hopefully as the prosecutors wheeled their briefcases through the spectator section.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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Friends and family of the various defendants eyed Anna and Grace hostilely or hopefully as the prosecutors wheeled their briefcases through the spectator section.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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And so I'm very concerned about the children who are treated hostilely on school grounds because people feel licensed to sort of throw hatred at their parents based on the lifestyle decisions that they make.
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Obama acted hostilely when he was a senator, voting to force Dubai to sell off its purchase of US port operations.
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From what we've seen, a lot of people react to the apples-to-oranges thing hostilely at first you definitely get some wacky ones, but with a little usage it starts to feel more natural.
FlickChart Makes Movie Ranking Fun | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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People in this country are not hostilely taken over if they don't want to be.
Jake Brewer: Would Microsoft Buy A Company Without Its Top Talent? ...or Any Talent? 2008
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Instead of crafting multilateral agreements to prevent this, the US instead continues acting hostilely by pushing full steam ahead on space-based antisatellite weapons and driving the nation to bankruptcy doing it.
A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic 2007
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