oppugnant
Example Sentences
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He is no boxer as Tunney was a boxer, but he is an oppugnant fighter with a fine disregard for other people's punches.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tendency is even among Christians to depreciate that which goes on independent of themselves and in a way oppugnant to their personal taste.
From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
He goes on, "Cur clandestinis consiliis nos oppugnant? cur de perfugis nostris copias comparant contra nos?"
From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by Jones, E.
Rather let us set ourselves to do that for Christ which is most oppugnant to our natural feelings.
From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
The ability to think has proved itself oppugnant to, and destructive of, the reckless desire to worship, characteristic of semi-barbarism.
From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
