antagonize
antagonise BrE

And we may antagonize a lot of people in doing so.

The last thing I want to do is antagonize him!

Now, what had been the point of antagonizing those two?

There was certainly no need to antagonize the woman further.

"Just so long as you do nothing to antagonize it."

"How do you know that he has not antagonized me also?"

"I think what it will do is antagonize a whole lot of people," Green said.

Now he thought his brother was doing it just to antagonize him.

He did not wish to antagonize the Major just at this moment.

On the other hand, I could not afford to antagonize him.

She almost felt sorry for the girl, but what good was it to antagonize these men?

Antagonize these people and you can find yourself in a world of trouble.

Whatever happens, they're not going to antagonize those who keep them in power.

I did not want to antagonize him with my insistence.

They did not wish to antagonize him more than was necessary.

"Many people here say, let's not do anything to antagonize China."

But for now, it has taken steps to avoid antagonizing the church.

"It might be more diplomatic not to antagonize them right away."

During the 1988 presidential election, the two antagonized each other.

Rather than antagonize him for any reason, she had best be candid now.

Their return to senior positions in Washington is likely to antagonize some on the right.

But at the same time, there is concern over antagonizing Russia.

We're trying to win over the locals, not antagonize them.

At a time like this, it was probably not wise to antagonize any god.

I could pick better people to antagonize, but he'd really gotten under my skin.

It would only antagonise her and be bad for the kids.

Why antagonise most voters, who already feel so hard done by?

In fact he probably thought she'd come here on purpose, when the last thing she had wanted to do was antagonise him.

In his position he was not anxious to antagonise the Press.

It could be the one measure that will most antagonise the City.

Why had she set out to antagonise, to accuse him of her brother's death?

Very arrogant, and often shows up merely to antagonise the two of you.

In doing this, we do not seek to provoke or antagonise China.

A series of other controversial incidents further antagonised the committee.

But this little episode need not antagonise with the normal course of ordinary business.

The administration set up its own special task force in order to find an alternative less likely to antagonise the logging industry.

Cameron says it's best not to antagonise your coalition partners.

This was not the time to antagonise him, not if she wanted to get home soon and in one piece.

He quickly antagonised many party members, particularly those in the Christchurch branch.

The fact that these stories antagonise the government is a testament to the validity of his claims.

I did not want to antagonise the man; on the contrary I wanted to have him with us.

"No need nowea8Jack said, only to fear he'd antagonised his father.

This position he antagonised many young Dutch painters for his conservative choices.

He became further alienated when the French government did not want to antagonise the local situation by seeking their prosecution.

In truth she couldn't afford to antagonise him, and that angered her still more.

Evidently he does not wish to antagonise his correspondent.

The top executive criminal, he wasn't going to antagonise anyone unnecessarily.

In any case, she told herself, it would be ridiculous to antagonise him, especially as, like it or not, they still had to work together.

'You wouldn't want to antagonise me any more than you already have.

You would do well not to antagonise those of us who do support your cause.'