divisive

How To Use divisive In A Sentence

• A lot was said during that divisive leadership campaign which cannot be unsaid.
• If you have lost enchantment, you are liable to divisiveness, intolerance, and aggression.
• I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic. American Coastopia!
• This is rapidly emerging as a deeply divisive political issue, although it has yet to burst into the open. Times, Sunday Times
• The bestseller lists are full of books highly critical of religion, countered by pundits whose heated rhetoric decries a public square made “naked” by the absence of religion.2 Yet the fault line between those who are religious and those who are not hardly exhausts the ways in which religion can be divisive. American Grace
• The 1968 campaign had been divisive as it was fought in the shadow of the Vietnam War.
• Cranmer does not intend to delve into the divisive arguments which confronted the Early Church on the nature of Christ's divinity and his humanity, but to focus on the controversy which has been caused by a statue of Jesus with an erect penis, which is on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Cranmer
• Republicans – your pettiness and attack machinery cannot work among the electorates who are intelligent and appreciate the disadvantage of divisive politics where cohesion is needed. DeMint: Senate could've voted on TSA chief 'months ago'
• The charge is that exclusive concentration upon the personal can, in its effects, be socially divisive.
• The language needed to describe unity is itself divisive, each word an island proclaiming its difference from every other.