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

He is not their landlord, nor are they his tenants; and so far from their interests being in any way reciprocal, they are actually adversative.

From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William

Other words of an adversative nature are yet, however, nevertheless, only, notwithstanding, and still.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

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

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