Meanings of deliberately divisive in English

She said the comments were deliberately divisive.

George Freeman, the head of the prime minister's policy board, tweeted that the inauguration speech was "unusually and deliberately divisive and confrontational".

An anti-independence leader Sonia Backes said Mr Goa was deliberately divisive and accused him of turning his back to the idea of a common destiny.

Queensland education minister Kate Jones called the proposal to give states carriage of public schools while the commonwealth continued funding other schools " deliberately divisive".