ill feeling

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ill feeling

A feeling of animosity or rancor.

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ill feeling

hostile feeling; animosity

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ill feeling

noun hostility, resentment, bitterness, offence, indignation, animosity, antagonism, enmity, rancour, bad blood, hard feelings, ill will, animus, dudgeon (archaic), chip on your shoulder He bears no ill feeling towards you.
favour, friendship, goodwill, benevolence, amity

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ill feeling

n → rancore m

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Mademoiselle offered Edna some chocolates in a paper bag, which she took from her pocket, by way of showing that she bore no ill feeling. She habitually ate chocolates for their sustaining quality; they contained much nutriment in small compass, she said.

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"On the eve of a day when God alone knows who of us is fated to survive, I am glad of this opportunity to tell you that I regret the misunderstandings that occurred between us and should wish you not to have any ill feeling for me.

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No use of such questions as that but to produce ill feeling. The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.

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I felt I ought to do it, for life is uncertain and I don't want any ill feeling over my tomb."

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With God's help, I believe that I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any wrong that he may have inflicted upon my race.

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Osborne himself--to make that old man repent of his cruelty and ill feeling towards him who was gone.

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Nothing could be gained from a quarrel except deeper ill feeling. With a supreme effort of will she obeyed the dictates of common sense and ended the argument abruptly.

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We always let each other alone in time to prevent ill feeling from spoiling a joke.

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Mr Roberts said when she came out she discovered her mother had been moved by the victim from North Wales to a nursing home in Oldham, reigniting the ill feeling. The lawyer said the pensioner's will had been rewritten in February.

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The Rostrevor man said he regretted his departure was not without acrimony and ill feeling.

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The shared arrogance and ill feeling that the four political parties have towards every new phenomenon which they consider to be threatening the established balance is enough of a reminder of the direction they have to take in order to adopt new and firm changes.

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City fans have had issues with UEFA in the past, but ill feeling increased considerably over a game in Russia in October last year.