adversative
Example Sentences
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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
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They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
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
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
Other words of an adversative nature are yet, however, nevertheless, only, notwithstanding, and still.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.