Antonyms for hostilely
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : hos-tl or, esp. British, -tahyl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɒs tl or, esp. British, -taɪl |
Definition of hostilely
Origin :- late 15c., from Middle French hostile "of or belonging to an enemy" or directly from Latin hostilis "of an enemy," from hostis "enemy" (see guest). The noun meaning "hostile person" is recorded from 1838, American English, a word from the Indian wars.
- As in differently : adv in another way; otherwise
- The girls eyed her hostilely, where she stood, by the fireplace, dominating the scene.
- Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke
- So the Organ-Sunday, which had begun so hostilely, ended quite peacefully.
- Extract from : « Erick and Sally » by Johanna Spyri
- And their probably true father is for ever there, hostilely there, passing for her cousin, as usual: now her protecting cousin.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 7 » by Samuel Richardson
- For they did not regard him as hostilely as usual, and he immediately concluded they were on another track.
- Extract from : « The Luminous Face » by Carolyn Wells
- The moment her fears that he had met Delamere hostilely were removed, all her tenderness for him returned with new force.
- Extract from : « Emmeline » by Charlotte Turner Smith
- Philippina got up: “Yes, it is my money,” she confessed with reluctance, and looked at Dorothea hostilely.
- Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann
- It seems to me quite certain that the Maharajah is hostilely disposed towards the Colonel.
- Extract from : « The Coming Conquest of England » by August Niemann
- Lawyer Tolman looked at him hostilely and inquiringly through his gold-rimmed glasses.
- Extract from : « The Voice of the City » by O. Henry
- If its faith be hostilely disturbed, then it loses its hope also, and the very root of its existence.
- Extract from : « The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures » by Frederick von Schlegel
- We see them hostilely wrestling with the sovereign power, which they contend is subordinate to their own.
- Extract from : « The System of Nature, Volume 2 » by Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach)
Synonyms for hostilely
- abnormally
- adversely
- antagonistically
- antithetically
- asymmetrically
- conflictingly
- contradictorily
- contrarily
- contrastingly
- contrastively
- discordantly
- disparately
- dissimilarly
- distinctively
- divergently
- diversely
- hostilely
- in a different manner
- incompatibly
- incongruously
- individually
- negatively
- nonconformably
- on the contrary
- on the other hand
- oppositely
- poles apart
- separately
- uniquely
- unorthodoxly
- unusually
- variously
- vice versa
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