How to Use antagonistic in a Sentence

antagonistic

adjective

• They found it impossible to deal with such antagonistic groups.
• Starro the Conqueror shows up in the trailer – in the comics, the antagonistic starfish was the first villain faced by the Justice League in the 1960s.
  — Jake Coyle, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2021
• In the latter video, a masked Tyler shoves his way through an antagonistic crowd.
  — Jade Gomez, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
• Cuban had been largely antagonistic toward both Trump and Musk in the lead-up to the election.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 13 Nov. 2024
• Unlike the House, where the swearing in was overshadowed by the antagonistic fight over the speaker's chair, the mood was jovial in the Senate.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2023
• That can help ensure the relationship between the doula and the rest of the health care team isn’t antagonistic.
  — Elizabeth Preston, STAT, 8 Nov. 2019
• That has been most plain in his antagonistic approach to Germany, the main host of U.S. forces in Europe.
  — Robert Burns, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
• The country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is fiercely antagonistic to the United States and hasn’t left the country in 30 years.
  — Noah Bierman, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• Henry, you and I talked last year about how the Gorn had become the central antagonistic aliens for Season 1.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
• In 1995, Gingrich became the speaker of the House and his antagonistic style became the new normal.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 27 May 2021
• What came out in this improv was how antagonistic these two different worlds of bats and birds could be.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• So those who are antagonistic to you might be very much all over social media.
  — Time, 18 Sep. 2022
• They may be compelled to take a more antagonistic stance.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
• Ruff, in contrast, could fairly be called one of the most antagonistic cop-watchers, Hiller said.
  — Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• During the booking process the man was in turns carefree, then antagonistic.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• That ended up meaning a lot of things that were antagonistic to North Korea.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
• Russia’s fake news law is a severe step for a country whose government is already antagonistic to the ideals of a free press.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2022
• The book paints an ugly picture of a chaotic White House, but the media's largely antagonistic role is also part of the portrait.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• As relations between China and the United States grow more antagonistic, the rest of the world is watching with unease.
  — Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• For UConn coach Dan Hurley, this is a great time to see how his team plays in an antagonistic environment down its key players.
  — Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• Those who have been most antagonistic toward Trump, like Sens.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 10 Apr. 2018
• Graphika also found that one of the most cohesive and least antagonistic fan groups was the Spanish-language Swifties.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• But their defensive habits can also have an antagonistic side: Like crabs, Cancers have claws and can pinch like hell.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 14 May 2018
• For as much as the local press was antagonistic toward wrestling, one match caught their attention.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2020
• This gives the actors on the world stage, including the player, incentive to be less fickle and antagonistic.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
• For many people, fashion is a refuge from an antagonistic world.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• One is much more antagonistic, and the other is more brotherly.
  — Theo Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
• The Denver Nuggets were undaunted, even when down 14 points in the third quarter and facing an antagonistic Portland crowd.
  — Anne M. Peterson, orlandosentinel.com, 4 June 2021
• Too seldom using that voice to stand up to the antagonistic patriarchal forces in her life and career.
  — Daniel Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Venom is hunted by antagonistic forces from his home world while Eddie runs afoul of more human villains, and the bantering bosom buddies have to work together to save each other.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025