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All oppugnation synonyms

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noun oppugnation

  • acrimony — Acrimony is bitter and angry words or quarrels.
  • animosity — Animosity is a strong feeling of dislike and anger. Animosities are feelings of this kind.
  • animus — If a person has an animus against someone, they have a strong feeling of dislike for them, even when there is no good reason for it.
  • antagonism — Antagonism between people is hatred or dislike between them. Antagonisms are instances of this.
  • bitterness — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
  • distrust — to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
  • enmity — The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
  • hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
  • ill will — hostile feeling; malevolence; enmity: to harbor ill will against someone.
  • nastiness — The state or quality of being nasty.
  • rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
  • rancor — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
  • resentment — the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc., regarded as causing injury or insult.
  • anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
  • antipathy — Antipathy is a strong feeling of dislike or hostility towards someone or something.
  • disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.
  • dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • ill-disposed — unfriendly, unsympathetic, or having a negative attitude, as toward another person or an idea.
  • malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
  • malice — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
  • odium — intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
  • oppugnancy — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
  • unfriendly — not amicable; not friendly or kindly in disposition; unsympathetic; aloof: an unfriendly coldness of manner.
  • venom — the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.
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