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What does antagonistic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Contending or acting against.
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In addition to the expectations of domestic constituencies, Lula must confront the antagonistic pressures of external interests and institutions.
The European Union is facing very high unemployment, and two antagonistic social logics are counterposed to each other.
The capitalist profit motive is antagonistic to public health, preferring to treat illness rather than preventing it.
The ceremony at the square was watched by more than three thousand people, including many who had been so antagonistic to him.
Their attitudes concerning poetry and its function in life are different, sometimes even antagonistic to one another.
Prior to this, the peninsula consisted of often mutually antagonistic kingdoms, duchies, city-states, and principalities.

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