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hostilely

Meanings
  • adverb

    Expressing or giving a feeling of opposition, enmity, or antagonism; unfriendly.

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hostile , hostilely , hostiles
Etymology
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From hostile + -ly

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  1. The word 'hostilely' first appeared in English in the late 15th century.

  2. The term 'hostile' comes from the Latin word 'hostis', which means 'enemy' or 'stranger'.

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  1. opposition: The state or attitude of being opposed or in opposition to someone or something.

  2. enmity: Intense and often prolonged hatred or animosity between individuals or groups.

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  1. Relations with neighboring societies may be intermittently or chronically "hostile". A society may be able to hold off its enemies as long as it is strong, only to succumb when it becomes weakened for any reason, including environmental damage.

    - Jared M. Diamond,{it}Collapse{/it},2005

  2. Dugoni, a lawyer who coauthored a nonfiction book about an Idaho worker brain-damaged in 1996 by cyanide fumes, opens his debut novel with a wrongful death attorney in San Francisco, David Sloane, about to make his closing remarks defending a corporation in a similar case. Sloane, who has won 14 cases in a row, hates his arrogant client and must face an obviously "hostile" jury.

    - {it}Publishers Weekly{/it},9 Jan. 2006

  3. Even when one is inside a climate-controlled spacecraft, sheltered from the deadly vacuum outside, space is a "hostile" setting. Terrestrial organisms venturing off the planet face a number of threats, chief among them cosmic radiation and the near absence of gravity.

    - Kenneth S. Kosik,{it}Air & Space{/it},June/July 2001

  4. I do not want a "hostile" relationship with my surgeon. But it's obvious he's pigeonholed me into the last of the four patient categories that doctors use when writing a case history: young, middle-aged, senior, elderly.

    - Sylvia Simmons,{it}Newsweek{/it},10 June 2002

  5. Lotus Development Corp. succumbed to a sweetened offer of $3.52 billion, or $64 a share, from International Business Machines Corp. in one of the fastest capitulations ever in a "hostile" takeover. A marathon week of negotiations, which began shortly after IBM unveiled a surprise bid of $60 a share for Lotus last Monday, ended yesterday with the signing of a definitive agreement.

    - Laurie Hays et al.,{it}Wall Street Journal{/it},12 June 1995

  6. While the stereotype of the tortured artist brooding alone in a drafty garret may be an exaggeration, artists of all kinds—painters, musicians, poets, singers—often find themselves struggling to cope in a … world downright "hostile" to their work. Financial hardships, loneliness, family members who nag them to get "real" jobs, and their own self-destructive attitudes and habits can block creativity and prevent artists from pursuing their vision.

    - {it}New Age Journal{/it},Winter 1995
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In literature, 'hostilely' is often used to describe the actions or attitudes of characters towards each other in a conflict or adversarial relationship. In art, it can be depicted in paintings or sculptures that portray hostility or aggression.

How to Memorize "hostilely"

  1. visualize

    - Visualize a person giving a cold, unfriendly stare or gestures of opposition towards someone else.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'hostilely' with the word 'unfriendly' or 'oppositional'.

  3. mnemonics

    - Create a mnemonic by remembering the 'H' in hostilely stands for 'Hostile' and the 'ly' stands for 'Likely' to be unfriendly.

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