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Example sentences for "antagonized"

Lexicographically close words:
antagonist; antagonistic; antagonistical; antagonists; antagonize; antagonizes; antagonizing; ante; antea; anteater
  1. Many of the other changes made by the emperor antagonized vested interests of nobles and ecclesiastics, and he was forced to revoke them.

  2. Antagonized to the German dreams were those of Russia, which was scheming for an extension of the Slav ascendancy to Constantinople and through Serbia to the Adriatic.

  3. He had estranged all free-spirited men, and he had antagonized the church.

  4. There are certain natures that need to be antagonized before they do their best.

  5. We are becoming excellent comrades, and this is far more gratifying to me than to know that I had antagonized her into a formal acquaintance by my aggressive morality.

  6. I could never hope for such a result, had I antagonized her the first day under my roof by an austere attitude toward a habit which I knew she had been reared to think proper.

  7. Fatigue, disappointment, and hunger are but ill antagonized by an outbreak of temper; and Mrs. D.

  8. Now, whatever virtues the waters possess, is surely antagonized by all this agency of gloom and depression; and except it be as a preparation for leaving the world without regret, this place seems to be marvellously ill adapted for its object.

  9. The new party was made up of men of various old parties, and it was important that the moderate democrats should not be antagonized by the extreme abolitionists.

  10. They merely show that the tendency is sometimes antagonized by other tendencies.

  11. This at once antagonized the two questions, and we all felt that the death blow had been struck at both.

  12. In the fierce passions of the schools, one who antagonized so completely the prevailing currents of thought, and who exposed so mercilessly the ignorance of the learned, could not fail to excite bitter enmities.

  13. Because she dreaded it, it antagonized her.

  14. Olive would have been welcome, a dozen times a day; she was the one person in the world who never antagonized him, never bored him, never tired him with irrelevant chatter.

  15. If she antagonized her by word or look, she would go to John Gilman, and Eileen dared not risk what she would say.

  16. Acting together, these muscles flex the carpus or extend the elbow and this action is antagonized by the biceps brachii (flexor brachii) and extensors of the carpus and phalanges.

  17. In doing this she unconsciously antagonized the purposes of the iron-hearted powers guarding the American union, and when the critical moment of that union came, they dashed her to pieces.

  18. The late Carl Schurz was a strong man and antagonized many people.

  19. The aggressive editor antagonized the government, and his foreign dispatches were all stopped at the outposts, while the ministerial journalists were allowed to proceed.

  20. Harriet asked, antagonized by his manner, and feeling her cheeks get red.

  21. This courtesy, from a beautiful young woman to an old one, always antagonized Madame Carter.

  22. His social pleasantries instantly antagonized her, and he saw it.

  23. He rolls about between these two parties, antagonized first to one and then the other, and altogether helpless and ineffectual.

  24. So far they have been antagonized towards Socialism by the errors of its adherents, by the impression quite wantonly created, that Socialism meant either mob rule or the rule of pedantic, unsympathetic officials.

  25. She saw that she had antagonized him, but he did not speak again.

  26. Her mourning is rather absurd under the circumstances," Rachael said vaguely, antagonized against anyone he chose to defend.

  27. But before she could speak he antagonized her by adding disapprovingly: "I must say I don't like your attitude of criticism and ungraciousness, my dear girl!

  28. Romanian statements in support of Albania further antagonized the Soviet leaders.

  29. It seems it is my wife's impression that whenever there was an argument that my mother antagonized Lee towards hostility against my wife.

  30. The bill was antagonized by the friends of a homestead bill--"A question of homes; of lands for the landless freemen.

  31. I am glad, too, it has antagonized with the nigger question.

  32. Sidenote: Interconnection of Puritanism, Commercialism, and Parliamentarianism] It was essentially the Puritan middle classes who were antagonized by the king.

  33. But strangers could not easily reconcile his private life with his public words, and were antagonized by his frequent lack of political tact.

  34. Upon one occasion in the Senate, a bill he had introduced was bitterly antagonized by a member who took occasion in his speech, while questioning the sincerity of Vance, to extol his own honesty of purpose.

  35. As the necessary result of the causes mentioned, the followers of the prophet soon found themselves bitterly antagonized by almost the whole anti-Mormon population of the "Military Tract.

  36. His candidacy was bitterly antagonized by the delegation from his own State, his name being presented by Governor Abbott of New Jersey.

  37. How well he succeeded all the world knows; how bitterly he was antagonized for about a score of years, most of the world has already forgotten.

  38. I never wantonly antagonized or humiliated them.

  39. Mr. Beck antagonized the amendments proposed by the committee and sought to delay the passage of the bill.

  40. Often as she had antagonized him, she had never really disappointed him.

  41. She had been the selfsame Ethel, a bundle of contradictions that attracted him at one moment and antagonized him at the next.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antagonized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.