antithetic

Example Sentences

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A cynic might consider the antithetic protests an attempt to place just such a notion in the minds of readers, an attempt which failed.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2015

But that might be a dangerous path, one that’s antithetic to the decades of ongoing work to bring women into fields like business, politics, and particularly science and technology.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2015

He spent one season at Utah State, then six at Brigham Young, where he coached Jimmer Fredette in a high-scoring offense that was antithetic to the pressure defensive style he would use at U.N.L.V.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2012

North he traveled, into Oregon, State of his antithetic running mate, cool, bourbon Charles Linza McNary.

From Time Magazine Archive

If any one would investigate this principle of antithetic reading further, let him take Macaulay’s “Essay on Von Ranke’s Popes,” vol. ii., p.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward