Definition of Hostile

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Hostile

Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.

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Hostile Quotations

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne Dyer

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
George W. Bush

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Robert Mugabe

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Gore Vidal

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Hostile Translations

hostile in Afrikaans is vyandelik
hostile in Dutch is vijandelijk, vijandig
hostile in French is ennemi
hostile in German is feindselig, feindselig, feindlich
hostile in Italian is nemico
hostile in Latin is infensus, diversus, infestus
hostile in Norwegian is fiendtlig
hostile in Portuguese is hostil
hostile in Spanish is hostil
hostile in Swedish is fientlig

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