contradictory
adjective
asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite.
contradictoriness
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a word derived from
contradictory.
Example Sentences
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"It's a tougher and more uneven world, and there's a certain level of contradictoriness that we just to have live with."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2013
Les parents terribles wears its contradictoriness with a flounce: all its adults behave like children; as in Hedda Gabler, anyone who prides herself on being unconventional, isn't.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2010
But the protagonists – Patty especially – are constantly making new discoveries about themselves: redemptive insights, lessons in the contradictoriness of the human heart.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2010
But the contradictoriness of Russian behavior also goes deeper than tactics: it reflects two contrary strains in Soviet society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Defect of knowledge, lack of pen-practice, confusion and contradictoriness of aims, instability of conviction,—these faults he recognised in himself at every moment of inward scrutiny.
From Born in Exile by George Gissing
