as in hostility
a deep-seated ill will
there's been bad blood between the two families for years
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Recent Examples of bad blood
Did that last-minute switcheroo kick off a history of bad blood between the two of you?
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Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
Bad endings: As happens during a divorce, all five left with some degree of bad blood toward management, though some eventually reconciled with their former teams.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
No one wants to have bad blood with this Space Ranger!
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 12 Mar. 2025
Following the allegedly tense meeting, Trump denied there has any bad blood being Rubio and Musk.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
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Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
Bad endings: As happens during a divorce, all five left with some degree of bad blood toward management, though some eventually reconciled with their former teams.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
No one wants to have bad blood with this Space Ranger!
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 12 Mar. 2025
Following the allegedly tense meeting, Trump denied there has any bad blood being Rubio and Musk.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad blood
Noun
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Stolarz’s inclination to shout instructions at teammates on the ice, often with serious levels of hostility in the name of competition, comes to him naturally.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Datta writes that Indians had faced violent treatment at the hands of Japanese forces, even if the Chinese community bore the brunt of the Japanese hostility.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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An armed man accused of walking into a Walgreens location in California and shooting an employee to death this week allegedly had a grudge against corporate pharmacies, police said.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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Theater owners gathered inside the Colosseum Theater at Caesar’s Palace on Monday didn’t seem to hold any grudges, and gave a warm welcome to the exec.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Mar. 2025
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That ecstatic communal experience is a glorious moment of freedom for oppressed people, most of them living hand-to-mouth in an environment of hatred and exploitation.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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In fact, her personal hatred of gripping challenges even served as her Survivor hot take below.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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