Sentence examples for veiled hostility from inspiring English sources
Their crude, insensitive remarks suggested thinly veiled hostility and aggression.
There is a heated atmosphere of testosterone and thinly veiled hostility.
Generations of guitar-besotted teen-agers followed their heroes through the doors, where they were greeted with thinly veiled hostility by the sales staff.
"If this less-than-reticent entrepreneur wishes to compel his beneficiaries to splash his name all over their buildings and his face in their programs, fair enough," an unnamed critic wrote with thinly veiled hostility in The Wall Street Journal last month.
Meanwhile, the faces of ordinary Afghans alternate between beleaguered stoicism and thinly veiled hostility.
Veiled hostility in the letter sees the North accuse the South Korean authorities of maintaining what it sees as an "improper attitude and negative stand".
It's impossible to envision museum-goers standing around for long listening to Gideon and Margie's substance-less shtick and veiled hostilities before stomping off to register a complaint at the information desk.
Youth team matches have been known to be a thinly veiled disguise for a resumption of hostilities ("There's always horrible fights there," admitted Asad), whilst the far less security-heavy basketball derby between Ahly and Zamalek has seen an explosion of violence courtesy of those who can't get their kick from the terraces any more.
Others wore veiled masks.
All the women were veiled.
