contradict
verb (used with object)
to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
contradictor
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a word derived from
contradict.
Example Sentences
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But Beckmann was always a contradictor, a towering imagination that made no concessions to the fashions or political pressures of his time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simply and innocently affirmative statements are good enough for empiricists, but unfit for rationalist use, lying open as they do to every accidental contradictor, and exposed to every puff of doubt.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
The odd halfpenny presumably represents the cost of an evening edition bought by the official contradictor in the exercise of his duties.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 by Various
Moreover, my amiable contradictor, permit me to submit to you one further observation.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne
But it went, he said, just like a decreet in absence, and was lost for want of a contradictor.
From Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
