Vocabulary
Divisive
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Glasser noted that Trump `seemed to be blaming the large chunk of the nation that reviles his racially divisive policies and those promoted by Kirk as surely as if they had pulled the trigger`.
- `Pashtunistan` is certain to recoil as a boomerang, and far from serving as a principle of unity for the diverse ethnic communities of Afghanistan, it will in time become a highly divisive issue.
- Presently, many states face divisive problems due to their unfair policies.
- All relevant LEAs must therefore keep monitoring cyberspace to ensure that malign actors are not able to use social media to spread communally divisive material.
- Curiously, but not eventually surprisingly, in all three troubled contexts, the divisive hand of colonialism is clearly visible.
Synonyms
alienating, estranging, isolating, schismatic; discordant, disharmonious, inharmonious
Curator example
“the highly divisive issue of abortion”
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