overt hostility

What's worse than I expected is the overt hostility from some of those who don't want me here.

Black workers often report encountering overt hostility when they start work.

Following this event there was no overt hostility between the two powers for many years.

The jurors were now looking at the defendant with overt hostility.

As the years have passed, there is less and less overt hostility.

This ends the overt hostilities, but both sides are unhappy.

There was no sign of overt hostility from the Mongs, only silence and dark looks.

The glass door to the center was recently broken, but by all accounts overt hostility from the community has subsided.

We've gone from expecting applause to being relieved that there is no overt hostility.

Turkey is certain to bristle at the overt hostility to its membership.

We met with fear mixed with curiosity, but never overt hostility.

Such attitudes are seldom expressed with any overt hostility.

They weren't bosom friends by any means, but there had never been any overt hostility.

The caged female eyed him suspiciously, but showed no overt hostility.

Traditional conceptualizations of sexism focused almost entirely on overt hostility toward women.

Gumbel insists he never displayed any overt hostility toward Couric.

But overt hostility to the king's ideas seemed to abate somewhat after Ursin's death.

The overt hostility of the message seemed to get diluted as it trickled through the pecking order.

"There is no sense of overt hostility," one senior ABC executive said.

At the same time there is little overt hostility to Romney, especially as he has now embraced hard-line social conservatism.

In 1950, world tension increased as the divided country of Korea became the site of overt hostilities.

There was for the most part, however, a marked absence of overt hostility to the West in the initial reaction to the American air attack.

He looked again to Michiko Nakamura, this time with less overt hostility in his eyes.

Overt hostility against Jews became more pronounced, finding expression in brutal episodes of violence and oppression.

Gossip, when done without malice (or at least without overt hostility), serves the same purpose.