Meaning of BAD BLOOD
| Pronunciation: | | bad blud
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| | Definition: | | [n] a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility |
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| | Synonyms: | | animosity, animus |
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| | See Also: | | enmity, hostility, ill will | |
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| | Definition: | | Bad Blood
With her father off fighting in World War II, and her mother engaged in a self-involved abandonment of her parental duties, the late British literary critic Sage (1943-2001) was raised at her grandparents` gloomy vicarage. In this wry memoir she tells why she embraced books instead of her bitter family. A New York Times Editor`s Choice for 2002. more details ... |
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| | Related Terms: | | acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad temper, bad will, bitter feeling, bitterness, blighting glance, clashing, collision, competition, conflict, contrariety, contrariness, cross-purposes, disaccord, dissension, enmity, evil disposition, evil eye, feud, fractiousness, friction, hard feelings, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, ill nature, ill will, ill-disposedness, inimicalness, malevolence, malocchio, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, oppugnancy, perverseness, rancor, recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, rivalry, soreness, sourness, uncooperativeness, vendetta, venom, virulence, vitriol, vying, whammy |
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