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    Use "antagonize" in a sentence

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    1. There is no longer any doubt in my mind that treason, as it was once (properly) understood, is on the verge of extinction; elasticized out of the American Constitution by the penumbral dynamics governing free speech in whatever form that may otherwise antagonize the well-bred standards of decency and good taste; depending, of course, on the topic and the person doing the talking!


    2. After crushing these uprisings, Ashurnasirpal II dares not antagonize Babylon and turns against Bit Adini, snatching the territory east of the Euphrates


    3. This would antagonize Hindus, who were more than 80% of the population against the minorities


    4. It will be the sheerest folly to antagonize the Egyptians


    5. Philip decided not to press Angela about her lie, knowing it would further antagonize Tommy


    6. that, it drove Bill crazy, as if Ross was trying to antagonize


    7. Gaston, her husband, took care not to antagonize her, although since that fatal noon when he got off the train he realized that his wife’s determination had been provoked by a nostalgic mirage


    8. William smiled in embarrassment, trying to find words that would not antagonize his wife


    9. No need to unnecessarily antagonize the Captain this early in the game


    10. ” Now I know he is a loon but keep quiet, not wishing to antagonize the guy with the gun

    11. The last thing he needed was to antagonize the professor, especially one of the few


    12. He kissed her on the lips as they parted, not a long, lingering kiss as he would have liked but a quick peck so as not to unduly antagonize the watching parents


    13. in the hospital, but realized that her presence would only serve to antagonize


    14. children do not antagonize the ghosts and moreover shall not block the ghosts, do


    15. “He’s only trying to antagonize the captain


    16. That was why he kept his mouth shut upon the subject of slavery because no matter what one said; it would encourage some but antagonize others


    17. Oh, what an ass you were, Sandro, to antagonize a Goddess


    18. best not to antagonize her hostess


    19. She knows not to antagonize the American president because there is too much at stake


    20. Not to incite him with my fast motions or antagonize him with my anger or arouse him with my fear

    21. this was not the moment to antagonize anyone


    22. "Don't antagonize me, Sophie


    23. The Church’s chancellor found himself in an uncomfortable position, outside the growing alliance between Duchairn and Maigwair and afraid to antagonize Clyntahn too openly


    24. Worse, not even the imperial bureaucracy wanted to antagonize Mother Church, and every second son of a Kyznetzov merchant house was either a priest or a law master … or both


    25. And as he follows its slope back up, a chasm inside returns him to what’s brought him here—the sense that he must have done something to antagonize the powers he can’t quite believe in, or let go of


    26. He followed Candace to antagonize her


    27. It was one of the reasons we tried not to antagonize her


    1. His bluster, his temper, his noisy hilarity, had always antagonized her


    2. X-man came up in conversations when Beverly antagonized inviting her other friend to gatherings on every occasion


    3. The biggest of the pack advanced, and antagonized Taxi


    4. The Shia Muslims who took over the government of Iraq from Sunni dictator Sadam Hussein has antagonized the Sunnis


    5. Gāndhiji had antagonized a lot of high caste Brahmins by saying:


    6. L’Nora simply had not anticipated Tammas being so logical, which only further antagonized her


    7. What with Raja Hari Singh, the Hindu King, having had no army to name, the mujahideen, armed to the teeth by Pakistan, could overrun a large chunk of the land, but owing to their jihadi habit to plunder and the acquired vice of rape, these marauders had senselessly antagonized even the Kashmiri Musalmans, who came under their sway


    8. Those, he helped and was loved by, will find the will of god unjust or blame it on luck for his premature death, and those he antagonized and was unpopular with, will point finger at his deeds


    9. as minister of education in 1970 antagonized so many people that it nearly ended


    10. suspected that my mother was having casual affairs throughout her life, which I could never pinpoint but which, nevertheless, antagonized me and little by little caused me to despise her for her infidelities to my boring, unglamorous, money-oriented but loving and generous father

    11. She wanted to let him know that at least one person here today understood all the mistakes he’d made along the way: the times he’d hit back, the times he’d stayed when he should have left, the times he’d given her another chance, the times he’d deliberately antagonized her, the times he’d let his children see things they shouldn’t see


    12. She studied the picture and the words, waiting for her thoughts to catch up to what her gut understood, but before she could figure out why she felt so personally antagonized, Dr


    1. There are those who seem to think that by force of will they can coerce this law; that they can sow seed of one kind and by “Will Power” make it bear fruit of another, but the fundamental principle of creative power is in the Universal, and therefore the idea of forcing a compliance with our wishes by the power of the individual will is an inverted conception, which may appear to succeed for a while but is eventually doomed to failure, because it antagonizes the very power which it is seeking to use


    1. Bergman’s stupidity in not realizing that the statute of limitations for 42 USC 1983 civil rights suit is THREE, not TWO, years caused him to further damage Mike’s defense by antagonizing the prosecution by filing the police brutality suit in STATE, not FEDERAL as agreed, COURT the week before the criminal trial began


    2. themselves! Let the antagonizing terrorist of the


    3. police,” Dave said, choosing the least antagonizing response


    4. Since the bad wolf was always antagonizing the good wolf, she thought that feeding it might help calm it


    5. Not antagonizing the older woman further, Nancy obeyed, then let the younger woman bodily search her with a latex glove


    6. then, wasn't it,” she replied with an antagonizing harshness in her


    7. tendencies, nothing is to be gained by antagonizing and provoking a country when such action 164


    8. We intend to keep hunting there, but in a selective manner and at night, both to avoid endangering the herds by excessive hunting and to avoid scaring or antagonizing the locals, who will be left in peace by us


    9. �First, Kierd has refrained from deploying these weapons in their war with Narad to avoid alerting and antagonizing their eastern neighbours


    10. was no point in antagonizing his parents by skipping

    11. • Try not to confront others in a mean-spirited or antagonizing manner


    12. “I need to speak to you about antagonizing Christian,” I hiss quietly in her ear as she embraces me


    13. There were leaping banderilleros with their antagonizing darts, and the picadors lancing the bull from the saddle of a padded and blindfolded horse until a dark, wet patch of blood appeared across the back of the bull, and I don’t doubt I was supposed to think of one of the Roman soldiers piercing His side with a spear


    14. nefazodone, an antidepressant thought to exert its action by antagonizing the


    15. “If you’re wrong,” Rob said from the side of his mouth, “antagonizing the lady’s not the happiest way to find out


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    Synonyms for "antagonize"

    antagonise antagonize counteract oppose clash collide disagree

    "antagonize" definitions

    provoke the hostility of


    act in opposition to