How to Use animus in a Sentence

animus

noun

• She felt an animus against them.
• There’s no animus or moral insult in his tone — just a feel for the context of such acts.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• That relationship lacked the trash talk, though, along with the clear animus and edge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2021
• Paul and his comrades hold no animus towards the French.
  — Time, 2 Nov. 2022
• There was no animus in his voice, and indeed the team seemed to be going out of its way to reassure Tai.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Come to think of it, personal animus among the principals is the stuff of the best rivalries.
  — Dallas News, 3 June 2022
• No, the report assured Asian Americans, the racial animus was not all in your head.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2021
• Despite the animus at the start of the meeting, some stakeholders remain hopeful that the group could make some progress.
  — Katrina Manson, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• And besides, the 76ers and their fans seem to be reserving most of their animus this season for Ben Simmons.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• Barack Obama’s election in 2008 made plain that the voting-rights wars were fuelled, in no small part, by racial animus.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• Officials claimed that the city needed the land for a park, but the Black landowners said the seizure was motivated by racial animus.
  — Clyde McGrady, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• White troops who fought alongside Black soldiers held less racial animus post-war.
  — CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• Still, most contemporary peers and fans agree that the animus mostly had to do with clashing egos.
  — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022
• This time racial animus was stoked by the president himself.
  — Peter Kaminsky, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2021
• The lever the council used to turn its racist animus into racist action was the suppression of tenant power.
  — Tracy Rosenthal, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• The animus had little to do with his space company, Blue Origin.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 22 July 2021
• Police have yet to say whether racial animus is believed to have played any role in Saturday's attack.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
• Now the Fraternal Order of Police has come out against her because of her seeming animus to cops.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 May 2022
• But the episode has spurred a wave of negative headlines about the Alabama city, as the fight largely broke down along racial lines in a city with a fraught history of racial animus.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2023
• For some, putting their name on the list was likely pure politics, not animus toward Ms. Haley.
  — Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• And Hollywood needs to get over its ingrained animus against streaming-first projects.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• But the group says that her use of certain phrases and words demonstrated a pattern of willful anti-Black animus.
  — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• There also has been a groundswell of animus at Santa Anita calling this a case of unequal treatment.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Some people in town have expressed shock, saying the brothers had never displayed any sort of racial animus.
  — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• And Stoll lost, of course, never quite evoking the older Junior’s petty animus.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• So is the animus of Catron and others about how they are fought— especially on federal lands and in their early hours — and who makes those choices.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• Some locals placed blame for the shooting on a Black man, igniting racial animus among the city’s white population.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• The plaintiffs contend the text messages add to an existing body of evidence in the original case that shows racial animus.
  — James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• Neither has confirmed it, but the general consensus is that there is animus between the two.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
• Families like the Wongs, who ran a laundry shop, were often targets of racial animus in Los Angeles.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024