adversative
Example Sentences
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Ginsburg explicitly said it “may be assumed” that most women did not want to go through the adversative model of VMI.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Companies that in the past had an adversative relationship with conservation groups have begun to take actions that are more than public relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are sometimes adversative; sometimes they are simply cumulative.
From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd
We are made to sympathize with his terrible anguish, as the logic of his remorse-throbbing conscience leads him to the bitter adversative: "But 'tis too late—all hope is past."
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
And if in volunteering him directions how to proceed, she had any purpose adversative to his, her note was without meaning.
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
