adversarial

• Betty's posture was adversarial, and even though Jeffrey's attention was obviously elsewhere, she continued to speak to him. —  Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
• President Obama's relationship with the White House press corps is getting more adversarial, as illustrated by his White House news conference yesterday afternoon. —  U.S. News
• Any negotiation between creditors and debtors is adversarial, and creditors have spent many decades refining demagogic public relations ploys to divert attention to abstractions about "fairness." —  GlobalResearch.ca
• "We don't want to be adversarial, and, in fact, we want people to embrace the program, but we don't want them to be misinformed or uninformed." —  News from www.rep-am.com
• In the adversarial arena of attempting to obtain fair results for injured plaintiffs, establishing the legitimacy and severity of a client's injuries is always difficult.

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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