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
But is termed the adversative coördinate conjunction because it usually introduces something adverse to what has already been said.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
"Or" here is not the adversative conjunction but an entirely different word, an archaic variant of "ere," meaning "before."
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Cocke and I have felt it in our bones—Gammer Gurton's Needle With adversative or disjunctive connectives.
From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
