contrariety
noun
the quality or state of being contrary.
contrarieties
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pluralof contrariety.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties."
From Time Magazine Archive
With Martin, who has just been released after serving a prison term, Ayme takes a dreamlike but invigorating stroll through the contrarieties of Western society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Sharpe shook his head as if to clear it of contrarieties.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
There is little difference in their speed either—a second, two seconds, or mayhap three—but these seconds are, in their results, so vastly different to the turfmen that all other contrarieties become as nothing.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
I took no pains about either company or cookery, and, in consequence, contrarieties and bad contrasts now prevailed, where, before, all had been in perfect keeping and true artistic shading.
From Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service by Charles James Lever
