Contests Synonyms and Antonyms

Argue, challenge
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. challenges
  2. opposes
  3. questions
  4. traverses
  5. disputes
  6. resists
  7. bucks
Antonyms:
  1. resigns
  2. allows
  3. agrees
To call into question and take an active stand against; dispute or challenge:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. opposes

Contests Sentence Examples

  • For such contests the hippodrome was set apart.

  • In the political interests which these contests involved he took no part; his favourite disciple, the princess Elizabeth, was the daughter of the banished king, against whom he had served in Bohemia; and Queen Christina, his second royal follower, was the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus.

  • For the contests of the Reatines with the people of Interamna see Terni.

  • In the second volume of La Vie litteraire Anatole France contests the theory of Sainte-Beuve.

  • The campaign that followed was one of the bitterest political contests in American history.

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