0 strong dislike, opposition, or anger: --
1 a strong dislike or unfriendly feeling: --
[ U ] I have no animosity toward him whatsoever.
Animosity between inmates and staff today is difficult to overstate, yet seldom does it escalate into open physical conflict.
For these businesses there are acute problems of coordination and of collective action even when they are not exacerbated by personal animosities.
Undoubtedly, repression from above further aggravated movement activists' animosity toward the governing party.
Personal animosity and stifled ambition merged with wider monastic concerns to produce an unavoidable conflict.
Even though these radiographers had some reluctance from their medical staff, they never experienced any animosity from their departmental colleagues.
So implacable was their hatred that as the summer progressed the only question was not if, but when, this animosity drove someone to action.
These were especially apparent in the field of education, where there was a definite attempt to paint a veneer of respectability over animosity.
Even though conflicts between pastoralists and farmers abound and appear inevitable, farmer-herder relations are not everywhere characterised by intense animosity.