All 13 Uses of
contradict
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
- No, no, I won't be contradicted, Esther dear!†
Chpt 4-6
- He observed us with a genial interest, but there seemed, if I may venture on such a contradiction, nothing selfish in it.†
Chpt 4-6
- Not on his own account (I was again aware of that perplexing and extraordinary contradiction), but on ours, as if personal considerations were impossible with him and the contemplation of our happiness alone affected him.†
Chpt 4-6
- The rooks, swinging in their lofty houses in the elm-tree avenue, seem to discuss the question of the occupancy of the carriage as it passes underneath, some agreeing that Sir Leicester and my Lady are come down, some arguing with malcontents who won't admit it, now all consenting to consider the question disposed of, now all breaking out again in violent debate, incited by one obstinate and drowsy bird who will persist in putting in a last contradictory croak.†
Chpt 10-12
- Among his other contradictory decorations he had the hat of a bishop and the little gloves of a baby.†
Chpt 13-15
- "No," Mr. Badger called out like some one contradicting at a public meeting.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- What is the use of your contradicting?†
Chpt 22-24
- "I was not going to contradict, Ma," returned Caddy.†
Chpt 22-24
- But I counted twenty-three gentlemen in wigs who said they were "in it," and none of them appeared to understand it much better than I. They chatted about it with the Lord Chancellor, and contradicted and explained among themselves, and some of them said it was this way, and some of them said it was that way, and some of them jocosely proposed to read huge volumes of affidavits, and there was more buzzing and laughing, and everybody concerned was in a state of idle entertainment, and…†
Chpt 22-24
- These were perplexities and contradictions that I could not account for.†
Chpt 28-30
- It would be contradictory for one in mademoiselle's state of agreeable jocularity to foam at the mouth, otherwise a tigerish expansion thereabouts might look as if a very little more would make her do it.†
Chpt 40-42
- "Don't you contradict when there ain't no occasion, and you won't be took in that way.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(contradict) disagreein various senses, including:
- to say something is not true -- as in "She contradicted his testimony."
- to say something else is true when both can't be true -- as in "I don't believe her. She contradicted herself as she told us what happened."
- to be in conflict with -- as in "Her assertions contradict accepted scientific principles."