adversative

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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

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

They are sometimes adversative; sometimes they are simply cumulative.

From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd

In view of the doubtful status of adversative atque at the time of Ovid and the ease of corruption of atqui to atque I have followed Heinsius in reading atqui.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

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