at odds

at odds

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In conflict or at variance.

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‘his behaviour is at odds with the interests of the company’

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‘She had felt different and increasingly at odds with her family, in particular her mother Fanny.’

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‘Service withdrawal seems to be entirely at odds with any claim to professionalism at all.’

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‘Any other result would have been at odds with the balance of the game.’

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‘But conflict resolution in recent decades is at odds with the principled approach.’

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‘The intense angst though felt at odds with the surrounding natural tranquil beauty.’

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‘That guidance is clearly different from and at odds with the 1972 decision letter.’

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‘He was often at odds with the more liberal wing of the church, having opposed the decision to ordain women bishops.’

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‘The architecture demands a kind of display which is at odds with the tone both of the words and of the spirit of the institution.’

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‘His conversion to the Nation of Islam years later, she said, was at odds with his Baptist upbringing.’

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‘Even more impressively, he did so while obviously at odds with his swing.’

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in conflict, in disagreement, on bad terms, at cross purposes, at loggerheads, quarrelling, arguing, clashing, at daggers drawn, at each other's throats, at outs, estranged

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at variance, not in keeping, out of keeping, out of line, out of step, in opposition, conflicting, clashing, disagreeing, differing, contrary, incompatible, contradictory, inconsistent, irreconcilable, incongruous, discrepant

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