adversary

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I hope he has checked this with a lawyer and that he is not giving his adversary ammunition.

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someone who offers opposition

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noun

someone who offers opposition

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for adversary.

noun

someone who offers opposition

See also: antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister

Example sentences

I hope he has checked this with a lawyer and that he is not giving his adversary ammunition.

Do you understand that your adversary here has twenty people who are smarter than you and have years of experience on his payroll?

I'm very sorry if I'm the first person to break this to you, but if you're an activist targeting the USG, your adversary isn't stupid.

However, it presents an adversary that doesn't want dragnet, but targeted surveillance.

It is hard to know where to turn and you spend as much energy trying to suss out the layout of your new environment as you do reacting to your adversary.

This means that a wanton malefactor such as Best Buy here had better watch out if it meets a determined adversary who is willing to play out the fight and expose its wrongs.

Remember that Tor explicitly doesn't protect against a global passive adversary.

In order to achieve success in the objective that brought me to the patch of earth I meet my adversary, I must first know that one of use will expire- the one that is least present.

Bruce Scheier, who was quoted in the Guardian piece about the same story, is America's foremost popularizer of the notion of NSA as crypto's global passive adversary.