contradictious
AmericanOther Word Forms
- contradictiously adverb
- contradictiousness noun
- uncontradictious adjective
Etymology
Origin of contradictious
First recorded in 1595–1605; contradict + -ious
Example Sentences
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Why, she is never contradictious, never up to tricks of any sort!
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Mrs Neville, who was somewhat of an invalid and of an argumentative—not to say contradictious—turn, forbore to snub him as she was wont to snub everything male under the age of fifty.
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They were talking over Raynier’s visit to the Nawab, and Tarleton, as usual, was contradictious.
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If apparent contradictious should be met with, every effort should be made to meet them.
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Self-denial, then, which is what I suppose you mean by Prudence, seems to me not only absurd, but very dishonourable to that Supreme Wisdom and Goodness, which is supposed to make so ridiculous and Contradictious a Creature, that must be always fighting with himself in order to be at rest, and undergo voluntary Hardships in order to be happy: Are we created sick, only to be commanded to be Sound?
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