0 in a way that causes great, and sometimes unfriendly, division between different groups of people, or disagreement within a group of people:
They claim the English education system is divisively structured and carelessly administered.
I don't like to gossip divisively about prettier, younger women.
Other right-wingers complained that the new version of the National Anthem was disrespectful to American patriotism and divisively belligerent in tone.
