set against

Verb

Meaning

(transitive) To cause (an individual) to be in conflict or opposition with someone or something.
Their slander has set my family against me.

(transitive) To have a strong feeling of not desiring to do something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. Thomas Carlyle

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. John Milton

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. Djuna Barnes

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. George Steinbrenner

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. Richard Russo

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. Elton John

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