bad blood

noun

: ill feeling : bitterness

Examples of bad blood in a Sentence

There's been a lot of bad blood between them since their quarrel. there's been bad blood between the two families for years
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But there’s bad blood between Burritt and his Cleveland-Cliffs counterpart, raising the question of whether U.S. Steel investors would need to heap on the pressure to get a deal done. Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025 Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 11, leading to bad blood with GOP nominee Donald Trump who sees her as an anti-hero. David K. Li, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024 Disney had a distribution deal with Pixar, but there was a lot of bad blood between the two companies. Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024 But those brief bad blood moments were few and far between. Joe Lynch, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bad blood 

Word History

First Known Use

1664, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bad blood was in 1664

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“Bad blood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad%20blood. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.

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