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
The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
We are made to sympathize with his terrible anguish, as the logic of his remorse-throbbing conscience leads him to the bitter adversative: "But 'tis too late—all hope is past."
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
The difficulty of preserving the effect of the Greek is increased by the want of adversative and inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of tautology which characterizes all modern languages.
From Charmides by Jowett, Benjamin
