hostile intent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhostileandintent
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hostile
adjective
uk/ˈhɒs.taɪl/us/ˈhɑː.stəl/
unfriendly and not ...
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intent
noun[U]
uk/ɪnˈtent/us/ɪnˈtent/
the fact that you want and plan to ...
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(Definition ofhostileandintentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhostile intent
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When the peer's intent was ambiguous, the reactively aggressive groups were more likely than the other groups to attributehostileintent.
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The two reactively aggressive groups displayed less accuracy at detecting peers' benign intentions, and instead, overinterpretedhostileintent.
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Their cognitive intervention focused on helping women understand that infants are not capable of behaving withhostileintent.
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Cultural context alters the disposition to inferhostileintent.
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However, the subsequent evidence suggests, in contrast, that the errors by aggressive children are restricted to overattributinghostileintentwhen the actual intent is benign.
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Aggressive youth were more likely to attributehostileintentto the person in the photo than were matched control youth.
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Further, the retaliation occurred as a function of the degree to which the victim actually attributedhostileintent.
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With repeated victimization, such schemas may develop into social-cognitive biases that result in misinterpreting ambiguous interpersonal situations as potentially threatening and attributinghostileintentto others.
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In this real situation, nonaggressive boys and girls attributedhostileintentto the peer 14% of the time, whereas aggressive boys and girls attributed hostile intent 61% of the time.
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I am not asking these questions withhostileintent.
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We have nohostileintenttowards anybody, but it will be dangerous.
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I suggest that this new service was designed withhostileintent.
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The time when sovereignty has to be defended to the end and to the limit is when there is ahostileintent, as has happened in two world wars.
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Unable to verify anyhostileintentfrom the herders, the team cut them loose.
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They began to carry out offensive sorties, not only against targets that had fired on them, but upon installations that had demonstrated nohostileintent.
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The tests utilized role-players and stealth techniques of insurgents to test the intuitive nature and helping to identify attempts to maskhostileintent.
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Koenig explains the incursion is by accident and withouthostileintent.
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