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.

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

invert, reverse, turn the tables; turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end, turn upside down, turn inside out. contradict, contravene; antagonize &c 708.

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

Disinclination to antagonize Henry.

This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others.

"Very likely it's unwise of me to say this,it will probably antagonize you,but I know Monohan better than you do.

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

"We are not to withdraw our support from, nor to antagonize, the public schools; they are the foundations of liberty in the nation.

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.

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

Two other ingredients of lovepurity and the admiration of personal beautyare of great value to the cause of morality as conquerors of lust, which they antagonize and suppress by favoring the higher (mental) sexual qualities; while the sense of beauty also co-operates with the instinct which makes for the health of future generations; beauty being simply the flower of health, and inheritable.

"They almost invariably antagonize the regular detective force.

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

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.

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."

Unchristian scienceless would be a more appropriate name, as the so-called divine revelation was made to its Eddyfying high priestess about 1800 years after the sublime career of Christ was ended, and its preposterous claims antagonize every principle of modern science.

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.

ANTAGONIZE, OPPOSE.To antagonize means properly "to struggle against," "to oppose actively," or "to counteract."

ANTAGONIZE, OPPOSE.To antagonize means properly "to struggle against," "to oppose actively," or "to counteract."

"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.

Insert the proper word in each blank, and give the reason for your choice:[100] ANTAGONIZE, OPPOSE.

Antagonize, oppose, distinguished, 94.

Oppose, antagonize, distinguished, 94.

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.