contradictoriness
- 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
The contradictoriness of this principle of theirs to the fourth article, needs no illustration.
From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by Presbytery, The Reformed
