What is another word for hold against?

Pronunciation: [hˈə͡ʊld ɐɡˈɛnst] (IPA)

When somebody holds something against you, it means they have a grudge or negative feelings towards you for something you did or didn't do. There are several synonyms for "hold against," such as blaming, faulting, reproaching, condemning, or criticizing. To blame someone for something implies that they are responsible for a problem or mistake. Faulting someone suggests that they are at fault for something wrong or bad that happened. Reproaching someone is to express disappointment or disapproval about their behavior or actions. Condemning someone implies a serious disapproval or criticism for their behavior. And criticizing someone means to point out their shortcomings or errors.

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Famous quotes with Hold against

  • What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
    William Least Heat-Moon
  • When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
    William Least Heat-Moon
  • There is only one thing that matters and that we'll remember. The rest doesn't matter. I don't care what life is to be nor what it does to us. But it won't break us. Neither you nor me. That's our only weapon. That's the only banner we can hold against all those others around us. That's all we have to know about the future.
    Ayn Rand
  • Indeed, sometimes I have to pinch myself to be sure I am not dreaming: that what many people in my own country now hold against Germany, which wreaked such horrors on the world for nearly a century — the new "German problem," as it were — is that Germans are repelled by war; that much of German public opinion is now virtually ... pacifist!
    Susan Sontag

Related words: hold against someone, hold against a person, hold against a country

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