How to Use antagonistic in a Sentence

antagonistic

adjective

• They found it impossible to deal with such antagonistic groups.
• That ended up meaning a lot of things that were antagonistic to North Korea.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
• As the drought dragged on, warfare, already somewhat common between antagonistic city-states, seems to have become even more prevalent.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
• The world is antagonistic to marriages, and there are a million different things that limit your access to your spouse’s attention.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
• 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
• Vocal workers took a more antagonistic stance towards GM.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2019
• 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
• Black women deserve apologies for every time our self-advocacy was viewed as threatening and antagonistic.
  — Candice Benbow, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2018
• Such things often preclude a more antagonistic relationship.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For as much as the local press was antagonistic toward wrestling, one match caught their attention.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2020
• 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
• The simple way of looking at protecting the butterflies, and at a lot of conservation work, is to see humans and nature as antagonistic.
  — Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2024
• Sometimes people are a little bit antagonistic about that song.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024