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
Now, nothing, on the other hand, could be more adversative to this, than the conduct, temper, and principles of his brother and sister.
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
The word especially is used for a term of distinction, even in those places where the adversative but is not joined to it, as in Tit. i.
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by
