animosity towards/against• Like the woman who wears it? wondered Cassie, surprised at the strength of her animosity towards Bella Latimer.• Whitlock had found his animosity towards Mobuto beginning to waver as the day progressed.• But the travellers who'd come to Castlemorton from all over the country, couldn't understand the local animosity towards them.• There seems to be no animosity towardsforeigners on the part of the ordinarycitizen.• Mr Adams's brother James said the family hold no animosity towards anyone over David's death.• I spent all afternoon full of animosity towards him - and then he died in that freakaccident.• There was thus little in the second reign to stir up renewedanimosity towards the Woodvilles.
Originanimosity
(1400-1500)Late Latinanimositas, from Latinanimosus“full of spirit”, from animus; → ANIMUS