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
The Twilight hunk reshared a post from the NFL to support his ex and her future husband, proving there’s no bad blood between them.
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Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Aug. 2025
However, there is no bad blood between my former boyfriend and myself.
—Tabitha Parent, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Hard to pick this one since rivalry week brings compelling games with bad blood surrounding in-state matchups like this.
—Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025
It’s been 14 years since these two programs, fueled by historic bad blood, have squared off on the gridiron with Mizzou’s departure to the SEC in 2012.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bad blood
Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Aug. 2025
However, there is no bad blood between my former boyfriend and myself.
—Tabitha Parent, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Hard to pick this one since rivalry week brings compelling games with bad blood surrounding in-state matchups like this.
—Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025
It’s been 14 years since these two programs, fueled by historic bad blood, have squared off on the gridiron with Mizzou’s departure to the SEC in 2012.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad blood
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to preserve its independence at any cost, stand on its own feet, and firmly resist the excessive demands, aggression, and acts of hostility by foreign powers—including the United States and the Zionist regime.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The message refers to the conflict in Gaza and calls for an end to hostilities.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
15 Sep. 2025
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Darkly funny and deeply melancholic, the film turns the family estate into a pressure cooker of grief, grudges and reluctant affection.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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After Abe’s assassination in 2022 by a suspect who said he was motivated by a grudge against the church, an internal survey in the LDP later found that nearly half of the party’s members had links to it.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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This is another fatalistic image of the single track on which homosexual desire is condemned to run, love inevitably curdling into hatred.—
Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Irish rap trio Kneecap has been banned from entering Canada, with the government accusing the group of allegedly promoting violence and hatred and supporting terrorist groups.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
19 Sep. 2025
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But her private letters to her sister Cassandra show a sharper and more astringent person, someone whose cruelty and bitterness were redeemed only by her jokes.—
Lucy Worsley
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Bitter Mai Tai is a full-fledged neo classic, first bright with lime and rum, then deep with almond, and then—where a standard Mai Tai would fall away with a lingering malic zing—the Bitter Mai Tai rises in a bold third act, humming with bitterness and the banana-funk of the rum.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
13 Sep. 2025
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