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
Proving there’s no bad blood, Wayans was welcomed back to ‘SNL’ to perform a stand up set during the last episode of Season 11, which ran from 1985-1986.
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Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
So there’s no bad blood this year between you and your fellow nominees?
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
The initial mistake stirred more bad blood between Hamas and Israel during a time in which the two sides are going through a tense ceasefire.
—Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Feb. 2025
There’s a lot of bad blood but at the same time tons of respect for the other team.
—Pierre Lebrun, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
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Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
So there’s no bad blood this year between you and your fellow nominees?
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
The initial mistake stirred more bad blood between Hamas and Israel during a time in which the two sides are going through a tense ceasefire.
—Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Feb. 2025
There’s a lot of bad blood but at the same time tons of respect for the other team.
—Pierre Lebrun, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad blood
Noun
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The Russian foreign policy establishment always speculated that Europe would be most likely to eventually seek rapprochement with Moscow, while U.S. hostility to Russia was thought to be hard-wired.—
Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor,
5 Mar. 2025
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Constantine says that talking about solar’s benefits—whether that’s through creating jobs, reducing blackouts, or pushing electricity prices down—is the key to overcoming hostility.—
Kate Yoder,
WIRED,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And again to be blunt, filmmakers and studio execs also maintain feelings and grudges that spill over into and onto fans and press on either side.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Another mentioned a different kind of bias potentially at play: the grudge theatrical stalwarts still hold against Netflix.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
22 Feb. 2025
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Democrats, blinded by their hatred of him, have ignored this.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Debra Messing, who has produced a new documentary on (horseshoe-theory) antisemitism called October 8, has been one of Hollywood’s few intensely admirable exceptions, calling out anti-Jewish hatred with a fierce constancy over the past 16 months.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Mar. 2025
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