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[ UK /ˈædvəsəɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈædvɝˌsɛɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who offers opposition

How To Use adversary In A Sentence

  • But often our dream date is the loudmouth down the hall, our office adversary, even the scary boss -- in short, someone we avoid even standing near in real life.
  • Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Lookout Keith Olbermann: now that you are more popular than Bill O\'Reilly in the cable news Neilson ratings, you must confront an even bigger monster, an even more tenacious adversary, an egomaniacally superior life-species: establishment liberal journalists.' Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann
  • That seems to have been the spiteful remark of an adversary; for at least while Churchill was still in politics, the Congress was staffed, and led by men and women of calibre and integrity.
  • Our legal system is fundamentally an adversary system - and this solution would betray its very nature.
  • The significant discontinuities elsewhere support the thesis of adversary politics.
  • Cynical adversary stances are not helpful - belief is necessary.
  • With the other he seized the top of a wooden packing-box, and holding this in front of his chest and abdomen as a Kaffir would hold his pavise, or rawhide shield, to ward off a thrust from an assagai, he walked straight toward his adversary. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
  • With a quick pull, Baxorth released his scimitar from the ground's clutches and took a couple steps to his left, toward his agile adversary.
  • There is too much at stake in this relationship for either side to really push an adversary agenda with the other.
  • One of the final panels proffers Der Führer's personal opinion of his adversary: ‘He is an utterly amoral, repulsive creature.’
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