contradictious
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Origin of contradictious
First recorded in 1595–1605; contradict + -ious
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Let 'em so much as smell the scent of layman in any position of authority, and it makes 'em as obstinate and contradictious and contrary as mules, and worse.
From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
City codes and country customs present some contradictious.
From Etiquette by Morton, Agnes H.
It was all, none the less, not so bad as Fleda had feared; it was faded and melancholy, whereas there had been a danger that it would be contradictious and positive, cheerful and loud.
From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry
He was full of moral sentiments—that man; only you could not look at him without fancying that they sprung more from an inclination to be contradictious and disagreeable than from any depth of principle.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
Perhaps then you would have understood the contradictious girl, as well as I did.
From The Measure of a Man by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
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