The phrase "a growing animus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increasing feeling of hostility or resentment towards someone or something.
Example: "The ongoing disputes between the two factions have led to a growing animus that threatens to escalate into open conflict."
Alternatives: "increasing hostility" or "rising animosity."
As her cry shifts into a throaty scream, I have sensed a slowly growing animus bloom inside me.
Such indignities arise amid a pattern of growing animus toward American Muslims.
Despite the growing animus, Singapore remains the third most desirable immigration destination for affluent Chinese after the United States and Canada, according to a survey by the Bank of China and the Hurun Report, which compiles an annual list of the richest Chinese.
You don't have to look any further than a Donald Trump campaign rally to see that the political animus between these two groups has fueled a growing amount of racial strife.
Against the backdrop of Middle East uprisings that have intensified animus toward Israel and growing momentum for global recognition of a Palestinian state, American and Israeli officials are struggling to balance national security interests against the need to adapt to a transformative movement in the Arab world.
But animus toward the practice has been growing in the airline industry, particularly with workers who say they don't want to help implement a government policy they find morally wrong.
For some, such as Kurds and Muslim Brothers, the animus has grown over decades of oppression, when many ethnic Kurds were deprived of their nationality and membership of the Brotherhood carried the penalty of death.
MY GERMAN QUESTION: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin, by Peter Gay. (Yale University, $22.50). Primarily a personal history by a cultural historian whose prose, largely lacking in animus, describes how the incredible looked to a sensitive boy when it was still incredible.
Sometimes, you realise you harbour an unexplained animus for a thing.
