Definition of Adversary

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Adversary

One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.

Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.

Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.

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Adversary Quotations

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
Michel Foucault

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
John C. Calhoun

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
Eric Cantona

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
Milan Kundera

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

You have to work more than your adversary.
Jurgen Klinsmann

Adversary Translations

adversary in Dutch is tegenstander
adversary in French is adversaire
adversary in German is Gegner, Gegnern
adversary in Norwegian is motstander

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