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

He was much taken up with scientific interests; keen, intent, and somewhat oppugnant in what concerned his favourite pursuits, but unsuspicious and trustful in the ordinary affairs of life.

From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte

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 tendency is even among Christians to depreciate that which goes on independent of themselves and in a way oppugnant to their personal taste.

From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

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