All 6 Uses of
inconsistent
in
Bleak House
- I wonder the very paving-stones opposite our house can have the patience to stay there and be a witness of such inconsistencies and contradictions as all that sounding nonsense, and Ma's management!"†
Chpt 4-6
- Any seeming inconsistencies in Mr. Skimpole or in Mrs. Jellyby I could not expect to be able to reconcile, having so little experience or practical knowledge.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- But they are not all like the woman who now leaves him and his house behind, between whose plain dress and her refined manner there is something exceedingly inconsistent.†
Chpt 16-18
- It gave me the most inconsistent opinions of her.†
Chpt 28-30
- Equally, last night, when her ladyship, as is so universally admired I am sure, come home looking—why, Lord, a man might almost say like Venus rising from the ocean—it was so unpleasant and inconsistent to think of her being charged with a murder of which she was innocent that I felt quite to want to put an end to the job.†
Chpt 52-54
- Now, besides my very much mistrusting the probability of his being there without making Richard poorer, I felt as if there were something in his careless gaiety too inconsistent with what I knew of the depths of Ada's life.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(inconsistent) not the same in different parts or at different times
or:
not in agreement [with something else]