empoisonment

noun

as in hostility

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  1. hostility
  2. antagonism
  3. animosity
  4. contempt
  5. enmity
  6. bile
  7. antipathy
  8. irritation
Noun
  • Monsoon rains repeatedly destroy their shelter, and the city offers them little beyond hostility and indifference.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
  • While Connecticut has responded to these attacks, creating a new student loan program and funding tens of millions in research programming in lieu of federal hostility, the attacks keep coming.
    — Derek Slap, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of hostility
Noun
  • By defining other civilizations as alien cultures, a civilizationist grand strategy might fuel antagonism rather than tolerate differences.
    — Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Still, the economic particulars underpinning this needless antagonism essentially are beside the point.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of antagonism
Noun
  • Knight paid Shakur’s bail and signed him to Death Row Records in Los Angeles, absorbing his artist’s growing animosity toward Combs, Wallace and their Bad Boy Records circle in New York.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Some farmers feel animosity toward the peach association for not getting ahead of the Del Monte bankruptcy and for not doing more to help farmers now that the damage has been done.
    — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of animosity
Noun
  • Because if the objection were simply to wealth, consumerism, vanity, or profiting from attention, our contempt would be distributed much more evenly.
    — Laura Jung, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026
  • This behavior by a defendant is not permitted in court and is often grounds for removal from the courtroom or a contempt-of-court charge.
    — Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of contempt
Noun
  • Though there’s never been a real reason given for the enmity, there have been enough talk at this point that most people believe the two are at odds.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Four years later, Hanke earned great controversy, and the enmity of the Clinton administration, by heeding a request from Indonesia’s president Suharto.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of enmity
Noun
  • All law enforcement smell the same, like acrid bile buried in roses.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Richard Lloyd, a founding member and guitarist of the influential rock band Television, has been diagnosed with bile-duct cancer.
    — sameen, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of bile
Noun
  • The other is that Republicans’ antipathy towards vote-by-mail is waning.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 1 June 2026
  • Alexander Kazakov | Afp | Getty Images That Russia and China are seen as ideologically aligned on many geopolitical issues, with each sharing a traditional antipathy and distrust towards the West, and Washington.
    — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 20 May 2026
Definition of antipathy
Noun
  • Another steered people to collagen creams for lifting, which included products for calming irritation and a cream formulated for reducing redness.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Hyaluronic acid can help combat potential irritation and dryness caused by retinol.
    — Ellie Davis, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of irritation
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“Empoisonment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empoisonment. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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