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
Or were they reserving themselves to see how far this audacious contradictor would dare to go?
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
I regret," replied Michel Ardan, "that I have not the honor of personally knowing my contradictor, for I would have attempted to answer him.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne
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
But he liked a listener and he loved to thresh out every question immediately and to put down the contradictor.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
