contradictious
AmericanOther Word Forms
Derived Forms
Etymology
Origin of contradictious
First recorded in 1595–1605; contradict + -ious
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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)
To be sure there be a few contradictious folks that would fain have had the old fashions tarry; but, well-a-day! they be but an handful.
From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.
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)
There's a-many always wants to read the bit that's tore off, showin' a contradictious temper like.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
I do not know what I find in you, for, in point of fact, you are but a dry fellow, and more contradictious than often suits me.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
