sectarian

Converse of object

leave: How would you characterize the 68 who weren't Brit left sectarians?

Adjective modifier

• hopeless: From then on it is clear that he regarded them as hopeless sectarians.
• religious: From all sides opportunists, religious sectarians and racists have jumped in to exploit the situation.

Modifies a noun

• strife: Heavy security was meant to lower the ever-present danger of sectarian strife at a festival with a bloody history.
• hatred: This pathetic attempt at stirring up sectarian hatred is the purest evidence yet of your desperation - Anyway, I thought you'd won?
• killing: We have busted several gangs involved in sectarian killings.
• violence: On ther same day some 40 people died through sectarian violence, now sweeping Iraq on a daily basis.
• bigot: The FRU maintained the sectarian bigot Brian Nelson on its payroll, knowing full well his hatred of Catholics.
• rioting: Then the long hard summer of sectarian rioting began.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: The unions became increasingly sectarian, increasingly materialist, until they deserved as well as received their defeat at the hands of Margaret Thatcher.
• not: In the debate, comrade Mc Shane said Red Platform comrades were not sectarian.
• nakedly: Interface communities are stigmatized as having bad attitude and being nakedly sectarian.
• very: Lewes, like most of East Sussex has a very sectarian past.
• deeply: Some believe Lebanon's fragile, deeply sectarian society may not even be ready for it.
• sometimes: SSP members may get annoyed by the sometimes sectarian methods of the CWI and SW platforms.

Used with adjective complement

become: In sociological terms, the religion became more sectarian.

Preposition: in

• nature: People have sectarian stereotypes because they grew up and live in a society which is sectarian in nature.
• way: Their murals were thus anathema to old-style mural painters who saw the new murals as sectarian in a way their own never were.