adversative
Example Sentences
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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
He is not their landlord, nor are they his tenants; and so far from their interests being in any way reciprocal, they are actually adversative.
From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
Cocke and I have felt it in our bones—Gammer Gurton's Needle With adversative or disjunctive connectives.
From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt
The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt
