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adj. - Not openly opposed or resisting

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Usage examples (6)
  • Adjective : a hostile nation. ,hostile criticism
  • Immediately after the double doors, we are met with a security metal detector, and two unfriendly, yet unhostile, looking gentlemen in suits.
  • When you have very friendly confrontation or engagement as you showed before between Al-Jazeera reporters and interview with the Marines and both of them working together in an...
  • A foreign and heterogeneous element, but as a spirit product, is unhostile and even congenial to the spirit; man begins to feel at home in the world, and hence he places...
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