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abrasive

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1. abrasive - Noun

2. abrasive - Adjective

3. abrasive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Producing abrasion.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. Saul Alinsky

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. Marshall McLuhan

"One cannot lose what one has not possessed." So much for that abrasive gem. I can lose what I want. I want you. Geoffrey Hill

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience. Paul Thomas Anderson

Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress. Isocrates

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world. Shalom Harlow

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