oppugnant
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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
There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man—his place, rights, duties and relations.
From Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City by Beecher, Henry Ward
He would not object to the publishing of 'Peter Bell,' or the 'Salisbury Plain' singly; but to the publishing of his poems in two volumes, he is decisively repugnant and oppugnant.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
He could have taken another, an oppugnant stand, as many a familiar confederate did.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
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
