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Meanings of hostile crowd in English

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Usage of hostile crowd in English
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JACOBUS appears in his doorway, night-capped and fur-gowned, shrinking from the hostile crowd.
The Piper: A Play in Four Acts
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Police were called to end the revelry, but met a hostile crowd on arrival.
The South African
3
UKIP leader Nigel Farage faced a hostile crowd during a campaigning visit to Edinburgh.
BBC
4
They did not hide their delight at having a hostile crowd to play to.
The Guardian
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The visiting pair said the hostile crowd, which booed at times, had made things difficult.
Reuters
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You can't negotiate with a baby or with a hostile crowd you can't even see.
The Guardian
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The reportedly hostile crowd surrounded the envoy's car and temporarily cornered him in a cafe.
The Guardian
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His eyes dart around the hostile crowd in terror.
World After
9
I glanced over the hostile crowd, looking for Master Dike, the glazier I had met yesterday.
Sovereign
10
It wasn't a hostile crowd by any means.
Reuters
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Argentina's teenage forward Lionel Messi thrives on tough away matches in front of a hostile crowd.
The Irish Times
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On both sides of the road sat and squatted the honest voters, sour-looking, disgruntled- adistinctlyhostile crowd.
A Knight of the Cumberland
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Did he feed off the hostile crowd?
Reuters
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Black faces glower from the mostly hostile crowd of five hundred gathered on the freshly mowed grass.
The way of the world
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Australia had to contend with a hostile crowd and a very experienced Springbok team boasting 810 test caps.
The Irish Times
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There was no question of refusing to 'face the music,' of shunning a hostile crowd, and so forth.
With Zola in England: A Story of Exile
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