oppugnant
Example Sentences
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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
The ability to think has proved itself oppugnant to and destructive of the desire to worship.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
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
Of course all this effect of oppugnant economical interests is under the guidance of the directors of evolution, who generally have their human servants to masquerade as characters widely different from the true.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
