• Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister
  Meaning: someone who offers opposition

• "Yes; it's my respected adversary."
• He was a candidate again in 1838, and was elected over so agile an adversary as Stephen Arnold Douglas.
• He of the black coat tremendously outclassed his adversary in point of size and strength as well as in ferocity.
• Milon struck his adversary so fiercely, that the lance splintered in his gauntlet; but the young knight kept his seat without even losing a stirrup.
• Don Quixote examined his adversary, and found that he already had his helmet on and visor lowered, so that he could not see his face; he observed, however, that he was a sturdily built man, but not very tall in stature.
• Chauvelin was still absolutely helpless, far more so than he could even have been under a blow from the fist, for now he could neither see, nor hear, nor speak, whilst his cunning adversary had quietly slipped through his fingers.
• He got mixed up in his arguments, as people do when handicapped by fear; and before long it became clear that chance had given me for adversary one who was the less fitted for the contest because he was conscious of what you magniloquently call my "greatness of soul." Broken by sufferings and misfortune, he looked on himself as a sort of wreck, and three fears in especial haunted him.

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