antithetical
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But to compromise would be antithetical to the spirit of the group.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
“Options and futures now allow people to gamble on the price without actually being involved in the blockchain, which is antithetical to what BTC was intended for.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 7, 2026
“The entire thing is antithetical to the history and tradition of the Constitution, which is what the Supreme Court cares so much about,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
‘Degenerate art’ — or, in German, ‘entartete kunst’ — was a term coined by the Nazi Party in the 1920s to describe modern art, which was seen as antithetical to the Nazi project.”
From Salon • Aug. 26, 2025
Many Kikongo words resemble English words backward and have antithetical meanings: Syebo is a horrible, destructive rain, that just exactly does not do what it says backward.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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