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

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

That his whole soul was energetically oppugnant, I need not say.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

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)