Sentence examples for mean hostile from inspiring English sources

They were cold, rude, mean, hostile". Clare Tufts, professor of French and director of the French Studies Program, has heard it before: Parisians are a bit--prickly.

Well what does that mean, hostile policy?" Wit, who has also spoken to the North Koreans as part of unofficial negotiations, explains that "hostility" means the general posture of the U.S. to North Korea in every regard from the political, security and economic.

"Particular" here means hostile.

That has even meant hostile bids, like PepsiCo's pursuit of its two largest North American bottlers, which the company completed last month.

The administration's regulatory proposals, by no means hostile to the banks but including some real changes, were being quietly amended to take out a lot of the teeth.

The rebels have had it especially hard; many have learned that a life of peace means hostile prospective employers, indifferent government bureaucrats and the ever-present threat of assassination at the hands of right-wing death squads.

The Farewell is a dispassionate, by no means hostile, portrait of a complex man at the point of death, an ironic egotist who exploited everyone around him as ruthlessly as the plutocrats he despised exploited the common people.

The overall policy draft on this is a garble, which a seasoned senior Treasury source (by no means hostile to Labour) describes as "an absolute botch and a funding nightmare for the universities".

Yet his 1896 paper (Zermelo 1896a) is by no means hostile.

That, of course, does not mean any hostile takeover will succeed.

But that does not mean frequent hostile outbursts are either inevitable or productive.