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Another word for adverse

ADJ

  1. Acting against or in opposition

    See also:

    support

  2. Tending to discourage, retard, or make more difficult

    See also:

    help

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Another word for adverse

MOD

  1. Hostile

    See also:

    unfriendly

    opposing

  2. Unfavorable

    See also:

    unfavorable

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Sentence Examples

  • He listened to no adverse criticism and receded before no obstacle.

  • He listened to no adverse criticism and receded before no obstacle.

  • He remained adverse to any case where he knew for sure that someone was killed.

  • The papacy was weakened by its contest with these adverse elements, and it was through its failure to triumph over them that its dream of European dominion, both temporal and spiritual, entered but very incompletely into the field of realities.

  • His Russophile policy caused some adverse criticism in Hungary.

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