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internecine

[ UK /ˌɪntənˈɛsiːn/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtɝnəˌsin/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of conflict) within a group or organization
    an internecine feud among proxy holders
  2. characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides
    internecine war

How To Use internecine In A Sentence

  • But if you believe that the real fight for power today is an internecine one taking place within the Labour Party rather than between political parties, it seems more than feasible.
  • British subjectivity posed by the American crisis is that the people most like them not only take up arms in internecine strife but form an alliance with the Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
  • Centuries ago the Old Empire fell to an internecine civil war, destroyed by the sorcerers known as poets, wielding the powers of ideas given human form and volition, the andat. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
  • They weren't worried about the Americans as much as they were, possibly, about internecine warfare.
  • Once self-sufficient and an exporter of food, it has turned into a country dependent on aid and therefore prey to the kind of internecine warfare which has laid waste to far too many parts of Africa in the post-colonial period.
  • But those internecine debates within the Social Security faction are, at the moment, every bit as irrelevant as the internecine debates within the phase out faction.
  • The propulsive contours Liszt assigns to the left hand all but vanished, thus attenuating texture and the work itself of its internecine dramas.
  • The deliberately thin plot involving a missing spy satellite thingy and internecine warfare between American intelligence agencies can be totally ignored by adults and children alike and the movie's all the better for it.
  • Investors lost about $200 billion as the Internet bubble collapsed, executives at AOL Time Warner engaged in internecine warfare, and the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission challenged the company’s accounting practices. AOL and Time Warner to officially split
  • No need to apologise, or explain, he's a charmer who lives off his wits, has a serious gambling problem and prefers to observe the internecine nature of romance, rather than participate.
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