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
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
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
Or were they reserving themselves to see how far this audacious contradictor would dare to go?
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
