antagonistic• A lot of people refuse to work with Paula. Her manner is just too antagonistic.• To a large extent these two approaches have been mutually exclusive, not to say antagonistic.• I can't understand why he's being so antagonistic.• So essentially antagonisticclass interests sharing the same region find themselves allying with each other in their mutual self-interests.• The bureaucracy also offered a means of social control over potentially antagonistic classes.• A border is a dividing line marking an abruptshift between two separate, sometimes antagonistic, entities.• How can we reconcile the low frequency of expressions of emotionalinvolvement in electioncampaigns with the high frequency of antagonistic partisanship?• Any long-termantagonisticrelationship seemed to harbor this kind of codependency.• Why are Kate and John so antagonistic towards each other?• The right wing press has always been deeply antagonistic towards the Labour party.