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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
antagonise .
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Examples
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Greenpeace is already pursuing a judicial review for alleged insufficient lack of consultation on nuclear power, and has been further antagonised by a perceived lack of transparency over submissions made to Weightman.
Huhne will use Fukushima report to revive nuclear programme 2011
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She will know that if she asks to use the collection service at this stage, not only will she lose up to 12% of the child maintenance due, but the non-resident parent might well be antagonised by having to pay 20% more.
Women's charities write to Theresa May over child support 2011
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Can you believe they antagonised me 4 times in a month for various reasons??
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Three years later, he was elected mayor of Istanbul, where he antagonised the still powerful secularists with his decision to ban alcohol in the city's cafes.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Is 'Papa' still a father figure to Turks? | Observer profile 2011
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Wendi Peters as Jack's mother, opposing his engagement to Whitworth's daughter, blends Nora Batty's frowning frump with Les Dawson's drawn-down lip and the belligerently expanding bosom of an antagonised bullfrog into an instant comic classic.
The Game Clare Brennan 2010
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Warren Gatland has antagonised England ahead of next week's Six Nations opener in Cardiff by revealing he was approached three times by the Rugby Football Union before taking charge of Wales.
Wales coach Warren Gatland reveals approaches from England 2011
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An important aspect of Greek nationalism in the post-war decades, during which pre-war political elites resumed power in Greece, was a virulent social conservatism that seemed to represent a deliberate counterdiscourse to the social order envisaged and to some extent realized by EAM, which had so antagonised traditionalists.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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He antagonised the crowd, and recordings certainly show he used some naughty words.
Jim Morrison may win pardon for indecent exposure, 41 years on Sean Michaels 2010
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However, he elaborates that the policy antagonised Greek nationalists across the political spectrum and the policy was swiftly recast as an educational reform involving the introduction of the Slavo-Macedonian language into local schools, with Greek language as an elective (see Scarfe & Scarfe, 1994). back
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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The typical hypocrisy of wealthy collectivists – one law for the masses and another for them, the rich and connected, and you cannot understand why coffeehousers are antagonised by blinkered commentaries whitewashing out his faults?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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