adverse
adjective
unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect.
adverseness
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a word derived from
adverse.
Example Sentences
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The document has the typography of law and none of its machinery: no adverseness, no authority, no statutory vehicle, no second signature.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
“There was never adverseness between the parties; there was never a case or controversy; and there was never a question as to who would prevail,” she wrote.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
This setting assures there is “that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for illumination of difficult constitutional questions.”
From MSNBC ● Jul. 22, 2015
The pursuit lasted until the Britons took refuge in a fastness of those parts, and the night parted the adverseness one from the other.
From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Eugene Mason
If you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged and prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
