as in hostility
a deep-seated ill will
there's been bad blood between the two families for years
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Recent Examples of bad blood
Sources have confirmed to PEOPLE that the 13-year age gap between Estes and Cavallari ultimately underscored the split, but there is no bad blood between them.
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Julia Moore, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Despite the ongoing divorce proceedings, there seems to be no bad blood between the couple, at least publicly.
—Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
Further proving that no bad blood remains between them, Gomez in 2023 celebrated on social media when both artists dropped new singles on the same day.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 July 2024
One of the biggest challenges for any leader is figuring out how to hold people accountable for their mistakes without creating bad blood.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 2 Sep. 2024
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Julia Moore, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Despite the ongoing divorce proceedings, there seems to be no bad blood between the couple, at least publicly.
—Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
Further proving that no bad blood remains between them, Gomez in 2023 celebrated on social media when both artists dropped new singles on the same day.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 July 2024
One of the biggest challenges for any leader is figuring out how to hold people accountable for their mistakes without creating bad blood.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 2 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bad blood
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The spike in homophobia and homophobic violence has led Ivorian gay communities and human rights groups to express concerns that the hostility could endanger the country's reputation for comparative tolerance.Tess Foley-Cox, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, international alarm has arisen over the hostilities taking place around southern Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP), which Russia captured at the start of the war.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Accordingly, Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria and other countries run by autocrats with grudges against the United States would once again dominate global energy markets.Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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But Mamá Elena is still nursing an old grudge against Pedro’s rich, ruthless father (Mauricio García Lozano).Judy Berman, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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As an intimacy grows between Cassie and Bryan, Berryman again dances with shadows of Blanche and Stanley, but with all the hatred removed, the poisons of class and time and gender drained away.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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The hatred isn’t just coming from anonymous fringe posters either.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Bad blood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bad%20blood. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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