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Перевод: antagonize
[глагол] порождать антагонизм; порождать вражду; противодействовать; сопротивляться; бороться
Тезаурус:
- Only the most objectionable individual could manage simultaneously to antagonize all three assessors.
- Gestures which antagonize
- But as always I was wary of contradicting him, not wanting to antagonize him by even the slightest show of disagreement in case he left me.
- antagonize the candidate by aggression or inadequacy;
- We're trying to win over the locals, not antagonize them.
- I cravenly agreed, simply in order not to antagonize and perhaps lose him.
- He could not afford to antagonize Anselm, but - with motives very similar to those which led Anselm to maintain the rights of his see as he had received them from his predecessors - he had no intention of abandoning any rights enjoyed by his father and brother.
- If you are too domineering in your handshake (and this may be to overcompensate for nerves) you will antagonize the interviewer who will subconsciously feel threatened on his/her own territory.
- A male teacher can antagonize you, attract you, provoke you into working harder, and make you aware of aspects of yourself that you did not know existed; if these have potential, a man can apply a useful sort of pressure to make you develop them.
- Imagine the very worst that can happen at the interview - you fall over, give all the wrong answers, blush and become tongue-tied, antagonize the interviewer, do everything so badly you patently have not got a hope of getting the job.
- Over raters are usually rather immature and may not be able to take criticism so whatever approach you adopt you might well antagonize them.
- It was to be the stumbling block; for if the Emperor abandoned the Clauses he would antagonize Britain, while so long as they remained, Russia would not respond to his requests for an alliance.
- He tried to make his voice gentle so that he didn't antagonize her.
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