enmity

Example Sentences

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After decades of enmity, in 2014 President Barack Obama opted to re-establish ties with the island in a historic but short-lived thaw.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

While the two men's enmity was never completely hidden, Newsom at least appeared to try a bipartisan hug that would keep the mercurial president involved in the costly recovery.

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

In April, a Siberian court found a real-estate agent guilty of inciting hatred and enmity by urging women to marry soldiers for “self-interested reasons.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

But the real problems began in 1973, when the service broadcast gavel-to-gavel prime-time coverage of the Watergate hearings, earning the enmity of President Richard Nixon.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2025

Then it was back to Paris to work on the peace treaty ending the war, an experience that generated his lifelong enmity toward Franklin, who found him insufferably austere and obsessively diligent.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis