“Animus” (AN-uh-mus) – from the Latin for “soul/disposition” – is a feeling of ill will.
Example (as used by Marilyn Stasio in a New York Times review of M Is for Malice by Sue Grafton): “To teach the poor chump a lesson, the media mogul steals the burglar’s lucky ring, an act of scornful hauteur that brings out the animus in Dortmunder.”
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