24 collocations for antagonizing

So the manager didn't want to antagonize a good customer.

It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive; except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth, namely, aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.

Disinclination to antagonize Henry.

It antagonizes that sexual differentiation of the more refined sort on which romantic love depends and tempts men to seek amusement in ephemeral, shallow amours.

What we are seeking, therefore, is to discover how to arrange things in such an order as to set in motion a train of causation that will harmonize our own conditions without antagonizing the exercise of a like power by others.

West's reasons for not antagonizing the Morse family were still powerful as ever.

"They almost invariably antagonize the regular detective force.

To antagonize the god of love, or to blame my husband for succumbing to him, would be foolish.

It had occurred to Sylvia, still shaken with the struggle over the question of secrecy, that she could, in decency, only offer to take herself away, after so violently antagonizing her hostess.

"In England, antagonizing forces must be of the same kind, but in the political phraseology of the United States a person may antagonize (i.e., oppose) a measure.

You have so far emancipated yourself from your old superstitions and beliefs that this action on your part will not antagonize the desirable members of your congregation.

For better or worse, the United States has limited, but not destroyed, as the world war showed, its freedom to antagonize powerful nations from whose people it has drawn large numbers of its own citizenship.

He wishes to live and do business here, and is quite too shrewd to antagonize his neighbors or come where he is not wanted.

"Yes, it's impossible, just as it is impossible for the regular detectives to antagonize the newspapers.

Always ready to listen, and to give men free chance to relieve their minds in talk, he never directly antagonized their opinions, but, deftly embodying an argument in an apt joke or story, would manage to switch them off from their track to his own without their exactly perceiving the process.

This she says to workingmen as a reason why they should not antagonize the social orders above them, whose work is as important as their own.

At all events, do not endanger the peace of your home and the happiness of your children, for fear of antagonizing a few parishioners of arrested spiritual development.

They only succeeded in antagonizing both sides, the Spanish authorities and the revolutionists.

As a last resort, through prudence and fear of the harm he might effect, they permitted him to pursue whatever studies pleased him and to neglect the others, being loath to antagonize this bold and independent spirit by the quibblings of the lay school assistants.

The painters were indeed more favored, for the material for their work, because of its susceptivity to varied play of color, did not antagonize spirituality so obstinately as the material of the sculptors, and yet they were obliged to load the sighing canvas with the most repulsive forms of suffering.

Even during the height of the indignation against him Douglass disclaimed any desire to antagonize his former associates.

But both we and the Romans agree in the main point; we both discovered the true purpose which dinner might serve,1, to throw the grace of intellectual enjoyment over an animal necessity; 2, to relieve and antagonize the toil of brain incident to high forms of social life.

This is not probable, but if he can effect his purpose he will, I apprehend, antagonize any attempt on our part to establish a provisional government."

On the other hand, we have inexcusable passions, because their psychological tendency is to antagonize the development of society.

24 collocations for  antagonizing