Definition of "ill will" [ill will]

• Unfriendly feeling; enmity. (noun)

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• "Douglas Paskin had never done anything intentional to raise any racial ill will among the employees of his company."
• "Callisthenes undoubtedly harbored much ill will toward the royal house of Macedonia for obliterating his hometown, but he obliged Alexander with obsequious propaganda until the king had him executed."
• "The Great King Cambyses conquered Egypt in the late sixth century B.C. and initiated a century of ill will when he burned temples throughout the country and killed the sacred Apis bull at Memphis in a fit of anger."