Antonyms for arresting
əˈrɛs tɪŋar·rest·ing

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1. arresting, sensational, stunningadjective

   commanding attention

   "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"

   Antonyms:
   unimpressive

   Synonyms:
   sensational, stunning, sensory

How to use arresting in a sentence?

1. Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy:

   I support the practice of arresting people who break the law.

2. Paul Pelletier:

   The potential for a postal employee to not do his job and throw away ballots for whatever reason -- a non-partisan reason -- there's never been a prohibition against arresting them to send a message to all postal employees that you can't impact the election, why now ? Given what happened in Pittsburgh my suspicion is that there's a political ulterior motive.

3. Mitch McConnell:

   In no world, whatsoever, should arresting a man for an alleged minor infraction involve a police officer putting his knee on a man's neck for nine minutes while he cries out' I can't breathe' and then goes silent, to me, to a great many of my fellow Kentuckians and to many outraged Americans, these disturbing events do not look like three isolated incidents, they look more like the latest chapter in our national struggle to make equal justice and equal protection of the law into facts of life for all Americans.

4. Andrea Costa:

   Across Africa, they keep arresting small fish here and there, they have finally caught a big fish.

5. Thornton Wilder:

   A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

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