All 5 Uses of
inconsistent
in
Great Expectations
- But how could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day?†
Chpt 17 *
- The noble boy in the ancestral boots was inconsistent, representing himself, as it were in one breath, as an able seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing-match, on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged.†
Chpt 31
- Why did you who read this, commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own last year, last month, last week?†
Chpt 47
- Its tone made him uneasy, and the more so because of the inconsistency between it and the hasty letter I had left for him.†
Chpt 53
- It occurred to me as inconsistent, that, for any mastering idea, he should have endangered his freedom, and even his life.†
Chpt 54
Definition:
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(inconsistent) not the same in different parts or at different times
or:
not in agreement [with something else]