ill feeling

ill feeling
ill blood or ill feeling noun
Resentment, enmity
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Main Entry:ill
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ill feeling noun
Resentment, animosity, bad feeling
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Main Entry:ill

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ill feeling,
suspicious dislike; mistrust; animosity: »

At midnight the dinner broke up, in an atmosphere of sullen ill feeling (Time).

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bad/ill ˈfeeling idiom
(also bad/ill ˈfeelings especially in NAmE) anger between people, especially after an argument or disagreement

There was a lot of bad feeling between the two groups of students.

Main entry:feelingidiom

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  • ill feeling — noun (U) angry feelings towards someone: Whatever ill feeling there had been between them had vanished by now …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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