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contradictious
[ kon-truh-dik-shuhs ]
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Other Words From
- contra·dictious·ly adverb
- contra·dictious·ness noun
- uncon·tra·dictious adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of contradictious1
First recorded in 1595–1605; contradict + -ious
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Example Sentences
But such a course would have been absolutely contradictious to his whole nature.
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Our next, which is very brief, is a still more striking instance of this contradictious and exclusive spirit.
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And this thought points the way out of another contradictious puzzle, that which confronts my argument from the ears of an ass.
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Again, I lose two pennies every day on my wife; for she is contradictious, wilful, and passionate.
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She knew not what to make of her niece, who had suddenly become stern and contradictious.
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