The phrase "a hostile response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a reaction or reply that is aggressive, unfriendly, or antagonistic.
Example: "The email I received was filled with a hostile response, making it clear that the sender was upset with my proposal."
Alternatives: "an aggressive reply" or "a confrontational reaction."
It prompted a hostile response.
But his studies were met with a hostile response from practitioners.
And they've decided that the only way out of this jam is to provoke a hostile response from white farmers".
But in 1955 its account of an impoverished family in Bengal drew a hostile response in some government circles and Ray was accused of "exporting poverty".
There was a hostile response – proving that, in the internet's answer to a town hall meeting, fringe perspectives are quickly slapped down.
In 1986, "Give Me My Father's Body" earned a hostile response from the natural history museum, which was determined to keep this unhappy story quiet.
On Thursday afternoon in Brooklyn, the normally staid campaign ritual of collecting signatures elicited an unusually hostile response, according to a 20-year-old campaign worker.
3.55pm BST Scientific reaction There has been a fairly hostile response from the academic community to this study.
The budget has received a predictably hostile response.Perhaps tired of this ritual indignity, Mr Barroso is looking for ways to reduce the commission's dependence on contributions from national governments.
His also endured a certain amount of embarrassment when he tuned to sex in Vox, which was generally well received, and then The Fermata (1994), in which a man with the ability to stop time uses his talent to strip women naked, which provoked a more hostile response.
The results drew a similar hostile response when he finally published them in Physical Review Letters in November 1984.
