Antonyms for thwartedthwart·ed

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1. defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwartedadjective

   disappointingly unsuccessful

   "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"

   Antonyms:
   successful

   Synonyms:
   disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, defeated

How to use thwarted in a sentence?

1. Juvenal:

   It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

2. Judicial Watch:

   Andrew Weisman, a key prosecutor on Robert Mueller’s team, praised Obama DOJ holdover Sally Yates after she lawlessly thwarted President Trump, how much more evidence do we need that the Mueller operation has been irredeemably compromised by anti-Trump partisans?

3. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   Any attempt to harm our soldiers and civilians will be met with a determined response like the military action tonight that thwarted a terror attack.

4. Jonathan Saenz:

   This common-sense religious freedom effort is far from over. We will not allow the clear will of the majority of Texans and a bipartisan majority of the Texas Legislature to be thwarted by a few.

5. Frederick Bastiat:

   It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire -- learned from the teachings of antiquity -- that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

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