adversative
Example Sentences
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Ginsburg explicitly said it “may be assumed” that most women did not want to go through the adversative model of VMI.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
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
They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
But is termed the adversative coördinate conjunction because it usually introduces something adverse to what has already been said.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
Without the adversative, the colon is to be preferred: "Prosperity showeth vice: adversity, virtue."
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
