mutual hostility

collocation in English

meaningsofmutualandhostility

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mutual
adjective
uk
/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/
(of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing the same thing to or for ...
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hostility
noun
uk
/hɒsˈtɪl.ə.ti/us
/hɑːˈstɪl.ə.t̬i/
an occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not ...
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(Definition ofmutualandhostilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Sometimes it seems unceasing arguments or the death of several children had produced intensemutualhostility.
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There is undoubtedly an unfortunatemutualhostilitybetween young technologists, the scientific community, and industry.
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Those attitudes ofmutualhostilitydid not stop in 1926, 1936, 1956 or 1996.
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Theirmutualhostilitywas now out in the open.
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It encourages the cold war attitude, and it leads to a mutual failure to understand and tomutualhostility.
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Out of the chaos, an atmosphere ofmutualhostilityarose between the judge and attorneys.
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Full diplomatic relations between the two countries were established late due tomutualhostility.
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The main purpose of the treaty was to preventmutualhostilityfrom escalating into war.
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The pact surprised the world because of the parties'mutualhostilityand their conflicting ideologies.
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But federation is a very tender and slow-growing plant, especially in countries where there has been a lot ofmutualhostility.
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The flaw in that argument is that any king-making powers of a minority party arise solely from themutualhostilityof the larger parties.
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The patients would not live in the harshness of the community, where they and other members of the community may view each other withmutualhostility.
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But if we want two peoples to live closely together in the same country we cannot really succeed if they are taught history which breedsmutualhostilitybetween the communities.
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Because of the commonmutualhostilityand suspicion, it is a custom to serve beverages and snacks in their original containers.
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The exchange was characterized by a degree ofmutualhostilitybetween the philosophers, each of whom accused the other of having misunderstood his basic points.
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The women lived inmutualhostility, each in a separate castle of the domain, with her own captains and entourage of relatives, both ladies endlessly pursuing lawsuits.
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