hostile attitude

collocation in English

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hostile
adjective
uk
/ˈhɒs.taɪl/us
/ˈhɑː.stəl/
unfriendly and not ...
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attitude
noun
uk
/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us
/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofhostileandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhostile attitude

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The generallyhostileattitudetoward lawyers in the house of commons was a significant obstacle.
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And it was quite a while before thishostileattitudechanged.
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Its tone fits in much more easily with the generallyhostileattitudedisplayed by the crown towards the gilds as evidenced by the 1389 survey and the 1548 dissolution.
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The governance literature assumes the limited role of government and adopts ahostileattitudetowards the provision of social goods and services by a powerful centralized government.
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These are the consequences from which we are suffering because of this flippant, politicallyhostileattitudeto the development areas.
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The only slightly disturbing facet of all this is the deeplyhostileattitudetowards the deer by the foresters.
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It is very natural that, exasperated by declining services, rural passengers should adopt a ratherhostileattitudetowards their local transport companies.
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He was confronted by eight individuals who, he maintains—and one can well understand it in the circumstances—took up a somewhathostileattitudetowards his complaint.
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The point is that nationality is one thing but that nationalism, which takes ahostileattitudetowards other nationalities, is a pernicious, dangerous influence.
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For those of us who have constituents who smoke, there is a political problem in taking ahostileattitudeto smokers.
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Why is there ahostileattitudetowards such assistance?
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Is there a morehostileattitudeone can take to a country than to challenge its frontiers?
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I consider it should take ahostileattitudetowards that particular country, but not necessarily go to war in the first instance.
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Whatever happened, for example, to thehostileattitudeto borrowing?
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Does it adopt ahostileattitudeto this expenditure?
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Whatever action we took, they certainly would not adopt ahostileattitudeto us.
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Thehostileattitudeof one nation towards another or a spirit of warlike opposition generally throughout the world has the effect of restricting international trade.
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They may have ahostileattitudeto the question.
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