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

Now, that instinct represents the tendency of which I speak, the antithetic tendency to the other already described.

From The New Theology by Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John)