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
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
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
They have looked forward rather than backward, have tacitly acknowledged the reality of change, the irreducible pluralism of nature, and the genuineness of the activities, oppugnant or harmonizing, between the items of the Cosmic.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
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)
