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were antagonistic
adjective
Contending or acting against.
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Their relationships with suppliers were antagonistic.
The water and the ice were antagonistic, but not only antagonistic.
The construction unions dismissed the report, saying its authors were antagonistic to labor unions.
Nor could Cameron afford to be seen as untrustworthy – by the voters, or by his backbenchers, many of whom were antagonistic towards the coalition.
Those who were antagonistic to Truman's policies-for example, Richard M. Nixopenlye openly admiring of him as a man of spunk & integrity.
The nationalist newspaper said criticism of Chen's appointment came from a small group of Twitter users who were "antagonistic against the Chinese mainland's political systems".
Ageing white residents (aka the traditional indigenous British working class) were antagonistic to inward immigration that dates back to the early 1980s.
Malevich seemed to pop up in the work of Mr. Kelly, Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt, but those similarities were antagonistic (Newman) or merely coincidental (Mr. Kelly).
During the week that the reporter tried to enter courtrooms as a member of the public would, some officials and officers were antagonistic, with several saying explicitly that court policy was that the public was excluded.
Cheever lived in the painful knowledge that his erotic desires included men, that these desires were antagonistic and even fatal to the social security he also craved, and that as such "every comely man, every bank clerk and delivery boy was aimed at my life like a loaded pistol".
Its forms and its sources were largely Greek it even adopted its laws of verse patterning from Greek models, even though these were antagonistic to the natural patterns of the Latin language and most of the sophisticated works of the major Latin authors were completely closed to the overwhelming majority of people of the Roman Empire.
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