antithetical

Example Sentences

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“That’s antithetical to what everyone is asking for.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

“Options and futures now allow people to gamble on the price without actually being involved in the blockchain, which is antithetical to what BTC was intended for.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 7, 2026

His father was a classical-music obsessive; his mother, an artist — tendencies that, at the time, were considered antithetical to working-class life.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

‘Degenerate art’ — or, in German, ‘entartete kunst’ — was a term coined by the Nazi Party in the 1920s to describe modern art, which was seen as antithetical to the Nazi project.”

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2025

Why was it so hard for designers to understand that being fashionable was not antithetical to being modest?

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad