adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of people refuse to work with Paula. Her manner is just too antagonistic .
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I can't understand why he's being so antagonistic .
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The right wing press has always been deeply antagonistic towards the Labour party.
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Why are Kate and John so antagonistic towards each other?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A border is a dividing line marking an abrupt shift between two separate, sometimes antagonistic , entities.
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Any long-term antagonistic relationship seemed to harbor this kind of codependency.
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How can we reconcile the low frequency of expressions of emotional involvement in election campaigns with the high frequency of antagonistic partisanship?
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So essentially antagonistic class interests sharing the same region find themselves allying with each other in their mutual self-interests.
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The bureaucracy also offered a means of social control over potentially antagonistic classes.
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To a large extent these two approaches have been mutually exclusive, not to say antagonistic .