How to Use animus in a Sentence

animus

noun

• She felt an animus against them.
• Of course, some of the city animus is e-scooters’ fault.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 1 May 2018
• On the flip side, his attempts at generosity wind up inspiring animus.
  — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
• Ultimately, though, some of the animus against the bill seems to come from a desire to punish streaming services from flouting copyright law.
  — Robert Levine, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2018
• Racial animus remains an entrenched aspect of American life.
  — Terrence McCoy, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• What comes through clearly in the interviews is the level of animus that Jackson has attracted from current and past colleagues.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• But the animus toward Columbia University was so dominant that that kind of took over.
  — Karen Matthews, The Seattle Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• Trump has long been critical of the news media, but taking away the credentials of White House reporters who cover him would take his animus to a new level.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 9 May 2018
• The court would still be able to strike down what was clearly a discriminatory act motivated by animus towards Muslims.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• At issue in Hawaii v. Trump is whether the entry ban order results from anti-Muslim animus — that is, a kind of religious prejudice.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• The depth of Wall Street’s animus for Warren isn’t clear.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• As in the best (and worst) of feuds, the origins are forgotten but the animus endures.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• 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
• How does Hae Sung not harbour any animus over the way things ended the last time around?
  — Hazlitt, 15 May 2024
• That relationship lacked the trash talk, though, along with the clear animus and edge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2021
• This is 2020 America, so the clip spurred some racial animus as well.
  — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020
• 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
• In 1919, when racial animus in D.C. erupted in race riots, some of the Wormleys moved to Cleveland.
  — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
• The show’s catalogue calls out the racial and religious animus in this and other images in the show.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Along with the animus between the Rams and 49ers, there were equal amounts of admiration and respect.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019
• But when the Fed slips up, or when times get rough, America’s old animus for central banks isn’t far away.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• This animus has been persistent in his career and has not changed in any way, and the hearing confirms that.
  — Gwen Aviles, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The animus was very real between the two women, and (spoiler alert!) the beef was not squashed and remains intact.
  — Tracie Egan Morrissey, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• 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
• The attempt on his life became another bargaining chip in another deal, one weakened by the lack of evidence that the shooter was motivated by partisan animus.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024