ADVERB
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with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner
he pushed her against the wall belligerently
How To Use hostilely In A Sentence
- People in this country are not hostilely taken over if they don't want to be. Jake Brewer: Would Microsoft Buy A Company Without Its Top Talent? ...or Any Talent?
- And so I'm very concerned about the children who are treated hostilely on school grounds because people feel licensed to sort of throw hatred at their parents based on the lifestyle decisions that they make. CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2009
- ‘Hello,’ she said rather hostilely before she quickly turned away.
- Instead of crafting multilateral agreements to prevent this, the US instead continues acting hostilely by pushing full steam ahead on space-based antisatellite weapons and driving the nation to bankruptcy doing it. A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic
- Obama acted hostilely when he was a senator, voting to force Dubai to sell off its purchase of US port operations. Jennifer Nix: Unconventional Wisdom on Dubai
- From what we've seen, a lot of people react to the apples-to-oranges thing hostilely at first you definitely get some wacky ones, but with a little usage it starts to feel more natural. FlickChart Makes Movie Ranking Fun | Lifehacker Australia
- My late friend Ivan Tors, who produced ‘Flipper,’ told me that he never saw an animal act hostilely, unless they were very hungry.
- From what we've seen, a lot of people react to the apples-to-oranges thing hostilely at first (you definitely get some wacky ones), but with a little usage it starts to feel more natural. FlickChart Makes Movie Ranking Fun | Lifehacker Australia
- The effect, Scalia explained, was that some topics were favored over others: you could be punished for speaking symbolically and hostilely about race, but not, for instance, about sexual orientation.
- Perhaps if DeMint were not fighting so vehemently and hostilely against Obama's domestic agenda, the president might not have DeMint as one of those distractions ... DeMint: Obama 'distracted' from protecting the country