oppugnant
Example Sentences
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He is no boxer as Tunney was a boxer, but he is an oppugnant fighter with a fine disregard for other people's punches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rather let us set ourselves to do that for Christ which is most oppugnant to our natural feelings.
From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
He was much taken up with scientific interests; keen, intent, and somewhat oppugnant in what concerned his favourite pursuits, but unsuspicious and trustful in the ordinary affairs of life.
From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte
Here he encounters the oppugnant back of the voracious ROBERT, who grows quite annoyed.
From The Servant in the House by Kennedy, Charles Rann
He could have taken another, an oppugnant stand, as many a familiar confederate did.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
