kept one's nose grindstone (verb) keep one's nose to the grindstone: work doggedly
Sinonime: abrogating,
adverse,
against, annulling,
antagonistic,
anti, balky, colorless,
con, contrary, contravening, counteractive,
cynical, denying,
detrimental, disallowing, disavowing, dissentient, dissenting, gainsaying,
gloomy, impugning, invalidating, jaundiced, naysaying, neutralizing,
nugatory, nullifying, opposing,
pessimistic, privative, recusant, refusing, rejecting,
removed,
repugnant, resisting, resistive, unaffirmative, unenthusiastic,
unfavorable,
uninterested, unwilling,
weakAntonime: good,
positive