Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing contradiction; contradictory; inconsistent; opposed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Contradictory; inconsistent.
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- adjective
contradictory ;inconsistent
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Examples
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– There are a few more phrases that I think could maybe be toned down: “pleading ritualism,” “unfathomable impossibility,” “illusory biology,” “contradictive peculiarity …”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum 2009
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– There are a few more phrases that I think could maybe be toned down: “pleading ritualism,” “unfathomable impossibility,” “illusory biology,” “contradictive peculiarity …”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum 2009
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The dead man lay beside the desecration bearing a contradictive peculiarity upon his face.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum 2009
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Get ready for four years of contradictive decisions. —
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The comment about Bush having more experience than Obama is a contradictive statement.
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This is because the relationship is external and is contradictive to his internal being, explained Rabbi Melamed.
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This is because the relationship is external and is contradictive to his internal being, explained Rabbi Melamed.
Oi Vey! Vhy Can’t You Marry A Nice Jewish Girl? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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To first discredit scripture, and then use it as authoritative is contradictive logic.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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In that book Mr. Pegg debunks a very ancient myth about the existence of some mysterious Cathar sect in the Southern territories of Provance and Languedoque, the sect which apparently took over people there and introduced its own way of life, highly contradictive to Christianity.
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As he became the junior Senator from Pennsylvania his contradictive tendencies continued.
Arlen's Specter 2009
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