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adverse
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John Adams, by McCullough
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- Its principal adverse effects on his way of life were spiraling inflation, and the loss of twenty-two of his slaves who ran off in the hope of joining the British side and gaining their freedom.†
Subsection 2.6.3 *
- But as any adverse or critical comment on Washington, any ridicule at all, would have been considered unacceptable at this stage, Adams served as a convenient target for mockery and humor, and would again, just as he would be subject to the easiest, most damaging of smear words: monarchist.†
Subsection 3.8.2
- If ever a system was proven to work under extremely adverse circumstances, it was at this inauguration of 1801, and it is regrettable that Adams was not present.†
Subsection 3.10.6
- Adverse comments about his own role in public life that appeared occasionally in print, or the "strange" letters he occasionally received, were no longer of any matter to him.†
Subsection 3.12.1
- He was "utterly adverse" to the admission of slavery into Missouri, which was in exact opposition to Jefferson, who favored it.†
Subsection 3.12.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(adverse) working against one's interests
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)