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The Iraq war was divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
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divisive = caused disagreement and ill-will between people
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It wasn't to unify the rest of the group — in fact, it was divisive.
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divisive = causing disagreement and often ill-will between people
- The game: a tricky, divisive Westing game.† (source)
- The impact of such contact on human society would be divisive rather than uniting, and would exacerbate rather than mitigate the conflicts between different cultures.† (source)
- The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century In the aftermath of slavery, the creation of a system of racial hierarchy and segregation was largely designed to prevent intimate relationships like Walter and Karen's—relationships that were, in fact, legally prohibited by "anti-miscegenation statutes" (the word miscegenation came into use in the 1860s, when supporters of slavery coined the term to promote the fear of interracial sex and marriage and the race mixing that would result if slavery was abolished).† (source)
- His social development essentially stalled with his breakdown, which came at a time when race in America was a raw, divisive subject.† (source)
- They continued celebrating in a festive spirit and singing that the people united would never be defeated—even though each time they sang, it sounded more out of tune because divisiveness and hatred were inexorably growing.† (source)
- A Cambodian teenager, kidnapped and sold to a brothel, in the room where she works (Nicholas D. Kristof) One reason the modern abolitionist movement hasn't been more effective is the divisive politics of prostitution.† (source)
- Tonight was Brown's traditional response to the divisive national or campus issues: a mandatory "outreach" meeting held in all the freshman dorms.† (source)
- "I told her I would release it to the media" because her lie about a black carjacker was causing deep pain among blacks, and he said he owed it to the town to end the racial divisiveness it had caused.† (source)
- He was loud, brash, divisive, and was proving to be a highly effective race baiter in a city that had produced many.† (source)
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- And here at home, the power of the Mafia crime syndicates and the divisiveness of the civil rights movement are two crucial situations requiring immediate attention.† (source)
- This soon became the most divisive issue of all.† (source)
- Like Washington and many others, Adams had become increasingly distraught over the rise of political divisiveness, the forming of parties or factions.† (source)
- ; "Banning English Divisive Measure"; "Hot in Any Language"; "Town's Ordinance a Step Backwards"; "Small Town News Can Grow Big and Ugly"; "Texas Town Makes Spanish Official, Stirs War of Words."† (source)
- She had kept her bargains with the officers in her army, promoting them outside their feudal hierarchy, making a new-model army that answered to her and not to the divisive barons.† (source)
- "There is no organization in this country as divisive as the new National Party," I declared.† (source)
- To be divisive.† (source)
- Nationwide, attitudes toward migrants have also proven increasingly divisive.† (source)
- Our team chose to revive This I Believe precisely to counter the divisiveness, the anger, the prejudice, and to raise a flag for thoughtfulness.† (source)
- This is the divisiveness Lincoln will face if he manages to win the war.† (source)
- "Of the potentially divisive threats to "the more perfect union," none surpassed slavery.† (source)
- His Reconstruction policies were bitterly divisive, to the point that he warred openly with members of his own party.† (source)
- But tonight's freshmen clearly have arrived knowing that the multiculturalist credo-embrace diversity so that every personal characteristic is cause for pride, not shame-has been criticized for institutionalizing divisiveness.† (source)
- Just as in the 1950s, our beliefs circle around the difficult, divisive questions of the age—what constitutes patriotism, the role of religion in our lives, race, poverty, immigration, America's place in the world, and the threat of planetary annihilation.† (source)
- He joked openly about his father's vast riches during the campaign, defusing that divisive issue with humor and candor so that average Americans would trust him when he spoke about making America better.† (source)
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