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“Antagonized” or “Antagonised”

Language

Antagonized and antagonised are both English terms.

Usage

Antagonized is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (en-US) while antagonised is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

In terms of actual appearance and usage, here's a breakdown by country, with usage level out of 100 (if available) 👇:

Term US UK India Philippines Canada Australia Liberia Ireland New Zealand Jamaica Trinidad & Tobago Guyana
antagonized 97 0 52 100 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
antagonised 3 100 48 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • In the United States, there is a preference for "antagonized" over "antagonised" (97 to 3).
  • In the United Kingdom, there is a 100 to 0 preference for "antagonised" over "antagonized".
  • In India, there is a preference for "antagonized" over "antagonised" (52 to 48).
  • In the Philippines, there is a preference for "antagonized" over "antagonised" (100 to 0).
  • In Canada, there is a preference for "antagonized" over "antagonised" (100 to 0).
  • In Australia, there is a 100 to 0 preference for "antagonised" over "antagonized".
  • In Liberia, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "antagonized" and "antagonised".
  • In Ireland, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "antagonized" and "antagonised".
  • In New Zealand, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "antagonized" and "antagonised".
  • In Jamaica, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "antagonized" and "antagonised".
  • In Trinidad & Tobago, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "antagonized" and "antagonised".
  • In Guyana, there is not enough data to determine a preference between "antagonized" and "antagonised".
Examples

Below, we provide some examples of when to use antagonized or antagonised with sample sentences.

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Examples in Context

Examples of “antagonized”

  • Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), which antagonized parts of the right-wing extremist-national
  • He increasingly antagonized his supporters with foreign policy
  • first, formed in May 1923, antagonized Józef Piłsudski, who resigned his
  • of Marx's scorned opponent seriously antagonized Marxist Party theorists, and so
  • claimed that those same things antagonized many powerful Democrats, so that
  • Arabian-Ifriqiyan army near Tlemcen, he antagonized tensions between the two armies
  • Forever, claiming that it presently antagonized French Canadians.
  • the second Cham genocide, further antagonized the Chams and after the
  • for their vitriolic interviews, which antagonized audiences to a point of
  • Epinephrine: action antagonized, paradoxical decrease in blood pressure

Examples of “antagonised”

  • poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who antagonised locals by criticising their production
  • James had already antagonised English protestants with his actions.
  • This position he antagonised many young Dutch painters for
  • success in the region, which antagonised Mowbray, to Mowbray's "crass incompetence"
  • bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army,
  • billing as a "true-life story" antagonised conservative critics as, although essentially
  • The Kulturkampf antagonised many Protestants as well as
  • Antagonised by the German mining of
  • towards plebeians and slaves had antagonised Rome's ruling Patrician caste and
  • for the Germans", those who "antagonised the Germans" and lastly the


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