antagonistic

IPA: æntægʌnˈɪstɪk

Examples of "antagonistic" in Sentences

This combination has been well called antagonistic coöperation.
These color-pairs are known as antagonistic or complementary colors.
And these two conditions we may call antagonistic, as far as our efforts at practical settlement are concerned.
In the first case, you can call the antagonistic principle “the existing order,” in the second, “antiquated prejudice.”
There was, as Margaret truly said, but one right and one wrong; the painful right, and the pleasant wrong, stood now in antagonistic contrast to each other.
But the effect of this is to place them in antagonistic relations in reference to the fiscal action of the government and the entire course of policy therewith connected.
They reinforce the notion of antagonistic policing, rather than the consensual, even contractual law enforcement that has, at least notionally, been the traditional mark of the copper on his beat.
The prevalent mode of social interaction today is what David Riesman, in The Lonely Crowd, referred to as antagonistic cooperation, in which a cult of teamwork conceals the struggle for survival within bureaucratic organizations.
Charging that the General Assembly of Illinois, as well as those of the other states, contain antagonistic elements which have retarded progress at the state level, the report recited how the labour movement, more and more, carries its appeals to the federal government.